• n. 地球；地表，陸地；土地，土壤；塵事，俗事；獸穴
• vt. 把（電線）[電] 接地；蓋（土）；追趕入洞穴
• vi. 躲進(jìn)地洞

來自PIE*er, 土地，地面，詞源同ore.

earth

earth: [OE] Earth comes ultimately from an Indo- European base *er-. This produced the prehistoric Germanic noun *erthō, ancestor of German erde, Dutch aarde (whence, via early Afrikaans, English aardvark [19], literally ‘earth-pig’), Swedish and Danish jord, and English earth. Related forms outside Germanic include Greek eraze ‘on the ground’ and Welsh erw ‘field’. The word’s basic range of modern senses, ‘ground’, ‘world’, and ‘soil’, all date back to the Old English period.
=> aardvark

earth (n.)

Old English eorte "ground, soil, dirt, dry land; country, district," also used (along with middangeard) for "the (material) world, the abode of man" (as opposed to the heavens or the underworld), from Proto-Germanic *ertho (cognates: Old Frisian erthe "earth," Old Saxon ertha, Old Norse j?re, Middle Dutch eerde, Dutch aarde, Old High German erda, German Erde, Gothic airta), from extended form of PIE root *er- (2) "earth, ground" (cognates: Middle Irish -ert "earth"). The earth considered as a planet was so called from c. 1400. Use in old chemistry is from 1728. Earth-mover "large digging machine" is from 1940.

earth (v.)

"to commit (a corpse) to earth," late 14c., from earth (n.). Related: Earthed; earthing.

1. I was shocked, brought down to earth by this revelation.

真相的披露讓我深感震驚，我被帶回了現(xiàn)實(shí)。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They would move heaven and earth to stop me if they could.

可能的話，他們會(huì)千方百計(jì)地阻止我。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Weather satellites have observed a ring of volcanic ash girdling the earth.

氣象衛(wèi)星觀測(cè)到一個(gè)環(huán)繞地球的火山灰?guī)А?/dd>

來自柯林斯例句

4. The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today.

“亞特蘭蒂斯”號(hào)航天飛機(jī)今天安全返回地球。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The earth shook and the walls of neighbouring houses fell around them.

地面搖晃，周圍房屋的墻體在他們身邊倒塌。

來自柯林斯例句