also ear-ring, Old English earhring, from ear (n.1) + hring (see ring (n.)). Another Old English word was earspinl. Now including any sort of ornament in the ear; the pendant sort originally were ear-drops (1720). Worn by Romanized Britons and Anglo-Saxons alike; their use declined in the Middle Ages and was reintroduced in England 16c., but after 17c. were worn there almost exclusively by women.
The two groups which had formerly a near monopoly on male earrings were Gypsies and sailors. Both has the usual traditions about eyesight, but it was also said that sailors' earrings would save them from drowning, while others argued that should a sailor be drowned and washed up on some foreign shore, his gold earrings would pay for a proper Christian burial. ["Dictionary of English Folklore"]
双语例句
1. She is wearing a small ruby earring.
她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环.
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2. How long have you worn that earring?
你戴那个耳环多久了?
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3. A sailor wearing earring now looks very strange to us.
现时水手戴耳环,在我们看来是怪碍眼的.
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4. Keep looking. We're bound to find the earring sometime.
继续找. 我们一定会找到耳环的. (必定,肯定)
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5. Man B: Don't make such a big deal, it's only an earring.
