thunder: [OE] Etymologically, thunder is nothing more than ‘noise’. In common with German donner, Dutch donder, and Danish torden, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thonara-. This was descended from the Indo- European base *ton-, *tn- ‘resound’, which also produced the Latin verb tonāre ‘thunder’ (source of English astound, detonate, and stun) and the Latin noun tonitrus ‘thunder’ (source of French tonnerre ‘thunder’). Thursday is etymologically the ‘day of thunder’. => astound, detonate, stun, thursday, tornado
thunder (n.)
mid-13c., from Old English tunor "thunder, thunderclap; the god Thor," from Proto-Germanic *thunraz (cognates: Old Norse torr, Old Frisian thuner, Middle Dutch donre, Dutch donder, Old High German donar, German Donner "thunder"), from PIE *(s)tene- "to resound, thunder" (cognates: Sanskrit tanayitnuh "thundering," Persian tundar "thunder," Latin tonare "to thunder"). Swedish tord?n is literally "Thor's din." The intrusive -d- also is found in Dutch and Icelandic versions of the word. Thunder-stick, imagined word used by primitive peoples for "gun," attested from 1904.
thunder (v.)
13c., from Old English tunrian, from the source of thunder (n.). Figurative sense of "to speak loudly, threateningly, or bombastically" is recorded from mid-14c. Related: Thundered; thundering. Compare Dutch donderen, German donnern.
雙語例句
1. The rolls of distant thunder were growing more ominous.
遠(yuǎn)處隆隆的雷聲聽著愈發(fā)驚心，要變天了。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The Prosecutor looked toward Napoleon, waiting for him to thunder an objection.
檢察官朝拿破侖望去，等他大聲抗議。
來自柯林斯例句
3. There was frequent thunder and lightning, and torrential rain.
雷電交加，大雨傾盆。
來自柯林斯例句
4. It was quiet now, the thunder had grumbled away to the west.
隆隆的雷聲向西邊傳去，現(xiàn)在寂靜下來了。
來自柯林斯例句
5. The distant thunder from the coast continued sporadically.