western

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛstən/    美 /ˈwɛstɚn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west.
    — the western approaches
  2. Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
  3. Occidental.
    — Japanese is traditionally written downwards (tategaki) and you begin reading from the top right of a page. This means that books are opened from what we would consider to be the back. Nowadays, however, books, newspapers and magazines are often written western style, in horizontal lines (yokogaki) from left to right and, in these cases, the book is opened from our (western) understanding of the front.

词形变化

more western comparative most western superlative westernmost superlative Western alternative westerns plural Western alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
By surface analysis, west + -ern.
词源 2
From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
By surface analysis, west + -ern.
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