Old English fleax "flax plant; cloth made with flax, linen," from Proto-Germanic *flakhsan (cognates: Old Frisian flax, Middle Dutch and Dutch vlas, Old Saxon flas, Old High German flahs, German Flachs), probably from Proto-Germanic base *fleh- "to plait," corresponding to PIE *plek- "to weave, to plait" (see ply (v.1)). But some connect it with PIE *pleik- (see flay) from the notion of "stripping" fiber to prepare it.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Flax is used for making linen.
亞麻用來(lái)織亞麻布.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
2. The workers wrer teasing flax.
工人們正在梳理亞麻.
來(lái)自辭典例句
3. Flax does well after wheat.
收過(guò)小麥以后,亞麻長(zhǎng)得不錯(cuò).
來(lái)自辭典例句
4. Just as darkness was falling , in flew the black thing with the five skeins of flax.
天剛剛黑, 那黑東西就飛進(jìn)來(lái)了,并帶來(lái)了紡好的五絞線.
來(lái)自辭典例句
5. Trichophyton mentagrophytes activity of three different bast fibers - hemp, flax and ramie fibers.