oxbow的词源

英文词源

oxbow (n.)

also ox-bow, mid-14c., "wooden collar for an ox," from ox + bow (n.1). Meaning "semicircular bend in a river" is from 1797, American English (New England); meaning "curved lake left after an oxbow meander has been cut off by a change in the river course" is from 1898. The reference is to similarity of shape.

中文词源

oxbow：牛轭湖，河流曲湾

ox,牛，bow,弓，轭。比喻用法。

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