also bourne, "small stream," especially of the winter torrents of the chalk downs, Old English brunna, burna "brook, stream," from Proto-Germanic *brunnoz "spring, fountain" (cognates: Old High German brunno, Old Norse brunnr, Old Frisian burna, German Brunnen "fountain," Gothis brunna "well"), ultimately from PIE root *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)).
"destination," 1520s, from French borne, apparently a variant of bodne (see bound (n.)). Used by Shakespeare in Hamlet's soliloquy (1602), from which it entered into English poetic speech. He meant it probably in the correct sense of "boundary," but it has been taken to mean "goal" (Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold) or sometimes "realm" (Keats).
The dread of something after death, The vndiscouered Countrey; from whose Borne No Traueller returnes. ["Hamlet" III.i.79]
双语例句
1. " Yes , but the beach is stony. You cannot beat Bourn mouth for sandy beach. "
是的, 但是海滨石头多. 找不出任何一个地方的海滨沙滩能赛过 渤 恩慕的.
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2. He likes music to the bourn of crazy!
他喜欢音乐达到了疯狂的境界怎么翻译?
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3. It is the truest life scene and the best life civilization where life bourn is rested.
生活情景至真,生活文明至善.人生境界止于此.
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4. The topmost bourn of a job is to watch others'working, but gain their salary.
