marsh: [OE] The immediate origin of marsh is Germanic: it comes from a prehistoric West Germanic. *marisk-, which also produced German marsch and Dutch marsk. This was probably a derivative of Germanic *mari ‘sea’ (source of English mere ‘lake’), whose relatives included Latin mare ‘sea’ (source of English marine). => marine, mere
marsh (n.)
Old English mersc, merisc "marsh, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *marisko (cognates: Old Frisian and Old Saxon marsk "marsh," Middle Dutch mersch, Dutch mars, German Marsch, Danish marsk), probably from Proto-Germanic *mari- "sea" (see mere (n.)).
雙語例句
1. They sometimes sank knee-deep into the marsh.
他們不時陷入沒膝的濕地。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.
馬什的一群朋友勸他們說這是個餿主意。
來自柯林斯例句
3. At her London Hotel today Miss Marsh told reporters she might retire.
今天在倫敦旅館,馬什小姐告訴記者她可能要退休.
來自新概念英語第一冊
4. The air, too, smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.
這里的空氣也比下面沼澤地旁清新多了.
來自英漢文學 - 金銀島
5. Marsh calls for fairly careful review of the agency decision.