首页英语词典girlgirl的意思

girl

英 [gɜːl] 美[ɡɝl]

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近义词maiden female lass Miss damsel

反义词

n. 女孩；姑娘，未婚女子；女职员，女演员；（男人的）女朋友
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复数: girls;

中文词源

girl 女孩

词源不详。

英英释意

1. a young woman;: "a young lady of 18"

2. a youthful female person;: "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle"

3. a female human offspring;: "her daughter cared for her in her old age"

4. a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved;: "his girlfriend kicked him out"

5. a friendly informal reference to a grown woman;: "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls"

英文词源

girl: girl: [13] Where girl comes from is one of the unsolved puzzles of English etymology. What is at least clear is that originally it meant ‘child’ in general rather than specifically ‘female child’ (a mid 15th-century text refers to knave-gerlys ‘male children’), but where it came from is not known. Among suggestions for words that may be connected are Low German göre ‘child, kid’ and Norwegian dialect gurre ‘lamb’.
girl (n.): c. 1300, gyrle "child, young person" (of either sex but most frequently of females), of unknown origin. One guess [OED] leans toward an unrecorded Old English *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilon-, diminutive of *gurwjoz (apparently also represented by Low German gære "boy, girl," Norwegian dialectal gorre, Swedish dialectal gurre "small child," though the exact relationship, if any, between all these is obscure), from PIE *ghwrgh-, also found in Greek parthenos "virgin." But this involves some objectionable philology. Liberman (2008) writes:
Girl does not go back to any Old English or Old Germanic form. It is part of a large group of Germanic words whose root begins with a g or k and ends in r. The final consonant in girl is a diminutive suffix. The g-r words denote young animals, children, and all kinds of creatures considered immature, worthless, or past their prime.
Another candidate is Old English gierela "garment" (for possible sense evolution in this theory, compare brat). A former folk-etymology derivation from Latin garrulus "chattering, talkative" is now discarded. Like boy, lass, lad it is of more or less obscure origin. "Probably most of them arose as jocular transferred uses of words that had originally different meaning" [OED]. Specific meaning of "female child" is late 14c. Applied to "any young unmarried woman" since mid-15c. Meaning "sweetheart" is from 1640s. Old girl in reference to a woman of any age is recorded from 1826. Girl next door as a type of unflashy attractiveness is recorded by 1953.
Doris [Day] was a big vocalist even before she hit the movies in 1948. There, as the latest movie colony "girl next door," sunny-faced Doris soon became a leading movie attraction as well as the world's top female recording star. "She's the girl next door, all right," said one Hollywood admirer. "Next door to the bank." ["Life" magazine, Dec. 22, 1958]
Girl Friday "resourceful young woman assistant" is from 1940, a reference to "Robinson Crusoe." Girl Scout is from 1909. For the usual Old English word, see maiden.

同义词辨析

girl, maid, maiden, daughter

这些名词都含有"姑娘，女孩子"之意。

girl：指7岁到12岁左右的女孩，与boy相对，广义指未婚的女孩。

maid：指闺女，女佣人。

maiden：指少女，处女或未婚女子。

daughter：指女子对父母而言的概称，不涉及年龄的大小。

考试真题

I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair.

She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.

Her biggest concern is the emphasis American culture places on thinness and the negative ways this affects girls today.

Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.

It has great influence on numerous girls and women.

It allows girls under 18 on the runway.

Especially girls and teens, says Record.

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

Far from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity (阳刚), the absence of girls gives boys the chance to develop without pressure to conform to a stereotype.

The findings of the study so against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls

Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being faded by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.

He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls

It fails more boys than girls academically.

It places more pressure on boys than on girls

Six 4-H girls worked to clean the 72 foot curbside that was covered with weeds, rocks and trash.

Participation in this project helped the girls developed a new attitude towards their parents of their own homes; they've learned how to work with tools, and improve their work habits

The 4-H girls planted trees and took care of them during the early stages of growth.

What have the 4-H girls learned from the project

Why do the 4-H girls agree to follow the park project through to complete.

A 9-year-old girl in New Mexico has raised more than $500 for her little brother who needs heart surgery in Houston,Texas this July.

All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

In my dreams I would have twins, a boy and a girl.

The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

The legend says that when seven girls were attacked by bears, they took refuge on top of a small rock, and they appealed to the Rock God for help.

The God caused the rock to grow and to lift the girls far above the ground, while its sides were scored by the claws of the angry bears.

Even today, says the legend, the girls can be seen above the towering rock as seven shining stars in the night sky.

A neighborhood girl had bought a new bike.

A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business.

Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby.

How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?

It seemed an unending journey, but even as a six-year-old girl I realized that knowing how to read could open many doors.

It seemed that something clicked with the girls between Saturday and Sunday.

It struck me that playing against the other team was a great learning moment for all the girls on the team.

Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

Peter gave the girl $300 as a reward.

She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks.

She suspected that one of her three daughters —then ten, eight, and six— had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn't.

The girl used to be shy, but is gradually getting active in group work and is more willing to express herself.

The girls on the wesleyan academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm, eighth-grader Taylor bisbee shivered a little as she watched her teammate Paris white play.

Then came my tweens and teens, and mean girls and cool kids.

When I was a little girl, my family moved to a tiny town at the bottom of a big mountain.

Whoever patty was, she was a mean girl.

In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada ,Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her, Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth.

In theory,a girl may veto the spouse her parents have chosen.

Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such as John hilliard's very funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different p

Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant's sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

实用场景例句

a baby girl: 女婴

a little girl of six: 六岁的小女孩

Hello, girls and boys!: 孩子们好！

Our youngest girl is at college.: 我们的小女儿在大学读书。

Alex is not interested in girls yet.: 亚历克斯对女孩子还不感兴趣。

He married the girl next door.: 他与隔壁的一个年轻女子结了婚。

an office girl: 女办事员

I'm having a night out with the girls.: 我今晚要和女友们外出。

Good morning, girls!: 姑娘们，早上好！

How is the old girl these days?: 老母亲近来好吗？

...an eleven year old girl...: 11岁的女孩

I must have been a horrid little girl.: 我一定是个人见人烦的小女孩。

We had a little girl.: 我们有一个小女儿。

...a pretty twenty-year-old girl.: 20岁的漂亮姑娘

I've been with my girl for nine years.: 我同我女朋友交往9年了。

Get me confirmation on the first available flight.: 替我确定最优先的班机.

The boss took a shine to the new girl.: 老板喜欢上了新来的姑娘.

The girl twined her arms about her mother's neck.: 女孩搂住母亲的脖子.

Unhappily, he never saw that girl again.: 遗憾的是他再也没有见到过那女孩.

Place the girl as a typist.: 让这个女孩做打字员吧.

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