angel
英 ['e?nd?(?)l]
美 ['end?l]
- n. 天使；守護神；善人
- vt. 出錢支持
- n. (Angel)人名；(德、塞、俄、保、瑞典、挪)安格爾；(土)安蓋爾；(法、葡)安熱爾；(西)安赫爾；(英、羅)安杰爾
助記提示
1. “天使”是對單詞 angel 的意譯，意即“上天的使者”，因此該詞的本義為“messenger (使者，送信人)”。
2. 音譯“安琪兒”。
中文詞源
英文詞源
- angel
- angel: [12] In a sense, English already had this word in Anglo-Saxon times; texts of around 950 mention englas ‘angels’. But in that form (which had a hard g) it came directly from Latin angelus. The word we use today, with its soft g, came from Old French angele (the ‘hard g’ form survived until the 13th century). The French word was in its turn, of course, acquired from Latin, which adopted it from Greek ángelos or ággelos.
This meant literally ‘messenger’, and its use in religious contexts arises from its being used as a direct translation of Hebrew mal’ākh ‘messenger’, the term used in the scriptures for God’s intermediaries. The Greek word itself may be of Persian origin.
=> evangelist - angel (n.)
- 14c. fusion of Old English engel (with hard -g-) and Old French angele, both from Latin angelus, from Greek angelos "messenger, envoy, one that announces," possibly related to angaros "mounted courier," both from an unknown Oriental word (Watkins compares Sanskrit ajira- "swift;" Klein suggests Semitic sources). Used in Scriptural translations for Hebrew mal'akh (yehowah) "messenger (of Jehovah)," from base l-'-k "to send." An Old English word for it was aerendgast, literally "errand-spirit."
Of persons, "loving; lovely," by 1590s. The medieval gold coin (a new issue of the noble, first struck 1465 by Edward VI) was so called for the image of archangel Michael slaying the dragon, which was stamped on it. It was the coin given to patients who had been "touched" for the King's Evil. Angel food cake is from 1881; angel dust "phencyclidine" is from 1968.
雙語例句
- 1. Thank you a thousand times, you're an angel.
- 萬分感謝，你真是個大好人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the start.
- 對守護天使的蹩腳設計弄巧成拙，從一開始就注定這部電影要失敗。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. A delightful guide was my guardian angel for the first week of the tour.
- 令人愉快的導游是我第一周旅行的守護神。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. She played the part of an angel, complete with wings and a halo.
- 她扮演天使，身上的雙翼和頭上的光輪一應俱全。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. She could not see herself in the role of ministering angel .
- 她想象不出自己成為一名救死扶傷的天使會是什么樣。
來自《權威詞典》