英语词汇“bough”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A bough is a large branch from a tree. You know: “When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall...” A “lullaby” about a baby careening to the ground from a broken branch? (Nice.)

The original “Hush-a-bye” rhyme, some scholars say, was modified in America to reflect pilgrim children’s observations of Native American mothers hanging cradles from tree branches so that the wind would rock their babies to sleep. Why do poets use bough when branch and limb mean the same thing? Well, maybe because more words rhyme with bough than with those others. Also, “holly boughs” and “blossomy boughs” sound much more musical than “branches.” What rhymes with branches? Cattle ranches?

WORD FAMILY

bough: boughless, boughs

USAGE EXAMPLES

After too many bank branches and drugstores, we lost faith in the possibility of evergreen boughs in the suburbs.

Salon(Dec 18, 2016)

SAT Evergreen cuttings and materials to make them into wreaths and boughs, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016)

All too often a seller bough the car cheap and is trying to resell for a quick buck, without regard to maintenance.

Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016)

n any of the larger branches of a tree

Hyper

limb, tree branch

any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

单词	bough
释义	bough (once / 412 pages) n A bough is a large branch from a tree. You know: “When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall...” A “lullaby” about a baby careening to the ground from a broken branch? (Nice.) The original “Hush-a-bye” rhyme, some scholars say, was modified in America to reflect pilgrim children’s observations of Native American mothers hanging cradles from tree branches so that the wind would rock their babies to sleep. Why do poets use bough when branch and limb mean the same thing? Well, maybe because more words rhyme with bough than with those others. Also, “holly boughs” and “blossomy boughs” sound much more musical than “branches.” What rhymes with branches? Cattle ranches? WORD FAMILY bough: boughless, boughs USAGE EXAMPLES After too many bank branches and drugstores, we lost faith in the possibility of evergreen boughs in the suburbs. Salon(Dec 18, 2016) SAT Evergreen cuttings and materials to make them into wreaths and boughs, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) All too often a seller bough the car cheap and is trying to resell for a quick buck, without regard to maintenance. Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016) n any of the larger branches of a tree Hyper limb, tree branch any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
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