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garage是什么意思

garage

英 ['gærɑː(d)ʒ; -ɪdʒ; gə'rɑːʒ] 美 [ɡə'rɑʒ]
  • n. 车库;汽车修理厂;飞机库
  • vt. 把……送入车库;把(汽车)开进车库
  • n. (阿拉伯)贾拉杰(人名)

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warehouse仓库 → garage 汽车间,飞机库;

中文词源


garage 车库

来自PIE*wer, 遮盖,保护,词源同weir, warrant.

英文词源


garage
garage: [20] As the motor-car age got under way at the start of the 20th century, a gap opened up in the lexicon for a word for ‘car-storage place’. English filled it in 1902 by borrowing French garage. The first references to it show that the term (station was an early alternative) was originally applied to large commercially run shelters housing many vehicles – the equivalent more of modern multi-storey car parks than of garages (the Daily Mail, for example, on 11 January 1902, reports the ‘new “garage” founded by Mr Harrington Moore, hon. secretary of the Automobile Club … The “garage”, which is situated at the City end of Queen Victoria-street, has accommodation for 80 cars’, and Alfred Harmsworth, in Motors 1902, wrote of ‘stations or “garages” where a number of cars can be kept’).

It was not long, however, before individual houses got more personalized garages, and the application to an establishment where vehicle repairs are carried out and fuel sold soon followed. The French word garage itself is a derivative of the verb garer, which originally meant ‘dock ships’. It comes from Old French garer ‘protect, defend’, a loanword from Old High German warōn (to which English ward, warn, and the -ware of beware are related).

=> beware, ward, warn
garage (v.)
1906, from garage (n.). Related: Garaged; garaging.
garage (n.)
1902, from French garage "shelter for a vehicle," a specific use of a word meaning generally "place for storing something," from verb garer "to shelter," also "to dock ships," from Old French garir "take care of, protect; save, spare, rescue," from Frankish *waron "to guard" or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German waron "take care"), from Proto-Germanic *war-, from PIE root *wer- (5) "to cover" (see warrant (n.)).
Influenced no doubt by the success of the recent Club run, and by the fact that more than 100 of its members are automobile owners, the N.Y.A.C. has decided to build a "garage," the French term for an automobile stable, at Travers Island, that will be of novel design, entirely different from any station in the country. [New York Athletic Club Journal, May 1902]
Garage-sale (n.) first attested 1966.
garage (v.)
1906, from garage (n.). Related: Garaged.

双语例句


1. Ben drove past them, nosing his car into the garage.
本小心翼翼地把车开进车库时从他们身边经过。

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2. "Was the car inside the garage?" — "No, it was still outside."
“车在车库里吗?”——“不,还在外面。”

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3. He emerged from the dark recesses of the garage.
他从车库的暗处走出来。

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4. They picked up Oliver and carried him shoulder high into the garage.
他们把奥利弗抬了起来,齐肩举着进入了车库。

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5. He pulled into the driveway in front of her garage.
他把车停在了她家车库前的车道上。

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