英：[breɪ]
美：[ breɪ]
brae如何读
brae是什么意思
n.
斜坡，山坡
山区
丘顶
山腰
brae英英释义
- n.a slope or hillside
brae词源中文解释
"陡峭的斜坡"，尤指英格兰北部的"山坡"，早在14世纪就出现了，源自苏格兰语，意为"斜坡，河岸"，可能来自古诺尔斯语的 bra，与古英语的 bræw，德语的 Braue 同源（参见 brow）。"这个词一定是通过'眉毛'的意义转化为'山脊'， supercilium（类似于古英语的 eaghill 'eye-hill'=眉毛）" [OED]。
brae词源英文解释
Middle English bra, from Old Norse brā eyelid; akin to Old English brǣw eyebrow, and probably to Old English bregdan to move quickly — more at braid
The first known use of brae was in the 13th century
brae 例句
1 So when they had sailed a bit farther they met a man who lay on a sunny brae and sucked at a tap.
2 Shetland once again; and when it opened out more, and began to fall off to the bow, the primitive cottages could be descried, and the diminutive cattle and the sheep that browsed on its braes.
3 Archaeology received a gift from nature in 1850, when a strong storm hit the Orkney Islands, stripping away sand dunes and uncovering the remains of the Skara Brae settlement.
考古于1850年收到了来自大自然的礼物，当强风暴袭击的奥克尼群岛时剥离了沙丘和揭露了斯卡拉布雷下陷的残存部分。
4 The brae, or glaciers, too.
5 A prickly pet may be captured in a hedgehog trotting off through the long grass, and colonies of young wild rabbits may be dug from the mounds and braes.
6 They learned this on the loch, for there sometimes, just as you are quietly passing some tree-clad bank or brae, you all at once open out some beautifully romantic glen.
7 The birds bask on the brae, and spread their wings to the warmth.
8 It is so pathetically different from the scenes she loved in life,—the heather-clad slopes of her Highland home, the seclusion of the wooded braes where she loitered with her poet-lover.
9 I saw the cottage where Robert and Jean first lived as man and wife, and walked on "the banks and braes of Bonnie Doon."
10 We went over to the brae to see the new plough that the farmer has gotten.
11 Discovered in Skara Brae, Oakney, in 1850, are the remains of a Stone age village - the most complete in Northern Europe.
这是北欧地区保存最完整的石器时代村落遗址，于1850年在奥克尼的斯卡拉布雷被发现。
12 “O’erhung with wild woods thickening green,” and “braes” clad in brackens, among which wild flowers were growing—the sweet-scented hyacinth, the white or pink crane’s-bill, the little pimpernel, and the azure speedwell.
13 It is in one of the many gables of the old mansion that abuts upon a green lawn, or brae, sloping somewhat steeply down to the river’s bank.
14 The driver stops plane firm quietly on an abrupt and open brae.
驾驶员把飞机稳稳地停在了一片陡峭而开阔的斜坡上。
15 They come back to me now, as other words come, that I havena thought of for many a year and day, a sure sign that I am no’ far from the foot o’ the brae.”
16 To your right, dimly seen, is the roaring Don, beyond it cliffs and braes, covered with forest and fern, heather and blaeberries.
17 And see not ye that bonny road, 50 That winds about the fernie brae?
18 The remains of a Stone age village built about 3100 BC can be seen at Skara Brae in the Orkneys.
在奥克尼群岛的斯卡拉布雷，可以看到石器时代一个村落的遗址，该村落大约是在公元前3100年建造的。
19 We didn’t have a clue about the loch and the brae and the rye, but the music never failed to bring tears to our mother’s eyes and we were twisted enough to really love that.
20 The road of justice is rugged and only welcomes brae people.
正义的路是崎岖的路，它只欢迎勇敢的人。