• n. 綠寶石；[寶] 祖母綠；翠綠色
• adj. 翠綠色的
• n. (Emerald)人名；(英)埃默拉爾德(女子教名)

來(lái)自希伯來(lái)閃語(yǔ)。

emerald

emerald: [13] Emerald traces its history back to an ancient Semitic verb ‘shine’ – bāraq. From this there seems to have been formed a noun *bāraqt meaning ‘gem’. This was taken over into the ancient vernacular languages of India (main source of gems in early times) as maragada-. Greek acquired the word as máragdos ‘green gem’, which was soon superseded as the main form by a variant smáragdos.

Latin adopted this as smaragdus (which passed into English, probably via Old French, as smaragd, a term used for the ‘emerald’ from the 13th to the 18th century, and revived as an archaism in the 19th century). In post-classical times Latin smaragdus became *smaralda, and as this became disseminated through the Romance languages it acquired in many cases an additional syllable: Spanish esmeralda, for instance (source of the English forename) and Old French esmeraude, borrowed into Middle English as emeraud.

emerald (n.)

"bright green precious stone," c. 1300, emeraude, from Old French esmeraude (12c.), from Medieval Latin esmaraldus, from Latin smaragdus, from Greek smaragdos "green gem" (emerald or malachite), from Semitic baraq "shine" (compare Hebrew bareqeth "emerald," Arabic barq "lightning").

Sanskrit maragdam "emerald" is from the same source, as is Persian zumurrud, whence Turkish zümrüd, source of Russian izumrud "emerald." For the excrescent e-, see e-.

In early examples the word, like most other names of precious stones, is of vague meaning; the medi?val references to the stone are often based upon the descriptions given by classical writers of the smaragdus, the identity of which with our emerald is doubtful. [OED]

Emerald Isle for "Ireland" is from 1795.

1. Emerald starlings are fairly small when compared with other such birds.

與同類的其他鳥(niǎo)相比，翠輝椋鳥(niǎo)要小很多。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. Alice has an emerald necklace.

艾麗斯有一串綠寶石項(xiàng)鏈.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

3. That emerald curtain doesn't match the floor.

那翠綠色的窗簾和地板很不相配。

來(lái)自辭典例句

4. Her jaw line tightened to squareness and her eyes went emerald.

她的下顎緊得成了方形,她的眼睛變成翡翠的顏色.

來(lái)自飄（部分）

5. She is wearing a ring set with emerald.

她戴著一枚嵌有綠寶石的戒指.

來(lái)自辭典例句