harbour

英 ['hɑ?b?] 美

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復(fù)數(shù):?harbours;

harbour 港口

har-, 軍隊，隊伍，詞源同 here,harry,-bour, 保護，庇護所，詞源同 bury. 引申詞義船只庇護地，避難所，后用于指港口。harbour 是英式拼寫形式，harbor 是美式拼寫形式。

harbour: harbour: [OE] Etymologically, a harbour is a ‘shelter for a crowd of people’. English acquired it in the late Anglo-Saxon period as herebeorg, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse herbergi, but it began life as a compound of prehistoric Germanic *kharjaz, originally ‘crowd’, later specifically ‘a(chǎn)rmy’ (source also of English harry and related to harness) and *berg- ‘protect’ (which occurs in a range of English words, including barrow ‘mound’, borough, borrow, and bury).

The original sense ‘shelter for a crowd or army’ had broadened out by historic times to the more general ‘shelter, lodging’. That is what Old English herebeorg meant, and gradually it underwent further semantic development, via ‘place in which shelter can be obtained’, to (as recently as the 16th century) ‘place of shelter for ships, port’.
=> barrow, borough, borrow, bury, harbinger, harness, harry, herald
harbour: chiefly British English spelling of harbor (n. and v.); for spelling, see -or. In this case it is considered to be without etymological justification and probably by analogy of labour.

1. Sewage nutrients do increase algal growth in the harbour.: 污水中的營養(yǎng)物確實會加快港口的海藻生長。

3. The gigantic natural harbour of Poole is a haven for boats.: 巨型天然港普爾港是船只的避風(fēng)港。

4. The fishing boat harbour was usually bustling with lots of local colour.: 該漁港通常都是一派熱鬧繁忙的景象，很有地方色彩。

5. Green and yellow lights blinked on the surface of the harbour.: 海港的水面上閃爍著綠色和黃色的燈光。