bray

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɹeɪ/    美 /bɹeɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.
  2. Any discordant, grating, or harsh sound. broadly
    — It seems a very nest—warm and snug, and green—for human life; with the twilight haze of time about it, almost consecrating it from the aching hopes and feverish expectations of the present. Who would think that the bray and roar of multitudinous London sounded but some sixty miles away?
动词 v.
  1. Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. intransitive
    — Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.
  2. To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar. archaic,transitive
    — Though thou ſhouldeſt bray a fool in a morter among wheate with a peſtell, yet will not his fooliſhneſſe depart from him.
  3. To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray. broadly,intransitive
    — He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.
  4. To hit (someone or something). UK,Yorkshire,broadly,transitive
    — If anything he brayed him all the harder – the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.
  5. To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. transitive
    — [N]ow ſtorming furie roſe, / And clamour ſuch as heard in Heav'n till now / Was never, Arms on Armour claſhing bray'd / Horrible discord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; [...]

词形变化

brays present,singular,third-person braying participle,present brayed participle,past brayed past brays plural brays present,singular,third-person braying participle,present brayed participle,past brayed past

词汇关系

衍生词
brayer braying brayingly outbray

词源

词源 1
The verb is derived from Middle English brayen, brai, bray, braye (“of a person or animal: to vocalize loudly; of the weather: to make a loud sound, howl, roar”), from Old French brai, braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to cry or shout out”) (modern French braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”)), possibly from Vulgar Latin *bragiō, from Gaulish *bragu (compare Breton breugiñ (“to bray”), brammañ (“to flatulate”), Cornish bramma, brabma (“to flatulate”), Old Irish braigid (“to flatulate”)), from Proto-Celtic *brageti, *bragyeti (“to flatulate”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to flatulate; to stink”); cognate with Latin fragrō (“to smell”). Alternatively, the word could be from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), and cognate with frangere (“to break, shatter”).
The noun is derived from the verb, or from Middle English brai, brait (“shriek; outcry”), from Old French brai, brait (“a cry”), from braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”); see above.
词源 2
From Middle English brayen (“to break or crush into pieces”), from Anglo-Norman breier, Old French breie, breier, broiier (modern French broyer (“to crush, grind”)), possibly from Frankish *brekan (“to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”); thus making the English word a doublet of break.
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