skerry

英语

词源

源自设得兰、奥克尼低地苏格兰语 skerry，源自古诺尔斯语 sker (参见丹麦语 skær、书面挪威语 skjær)。

发音

Skerry (small rocky island).

• (英国，美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈskɛɹi/

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• 韵部：-ɛri
• 同音词：scary (有Mary-marry-merry合并的方言)

名词

skerry (复数 skerries)

1. 礁，岩，屿；小型石质岛屿，涨潮时可能被淹没
   • 1805, George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands，第 322 页:

     The Seal (phoca vitulina, Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of selchy, is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries, where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].

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   • 1997, Bernard Scudder, transl., Egil's Saga, Penguin Books，第 46 页:

     Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries, then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.

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   • 2000, Jeremy Gaskell, Who Killed the Great Auk?, Oxford University Press，第 20 页:

     The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry, finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.

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异序词

• skryer

低地苏格兰语

词源

源自古诺尔斯语 sker。

名词

skerry (复数 skerries)

1. (多用于设得兰、奥克尼) 礁，岩，屿
   • 2004, Sheena Blackhall, The Humpty Dumpty Man:

     Tae the icy flowes o the Shetlan voes he sailed tae Scalloway, / There his sweethairt won, far a Viking sun shines ower the skerries grey.

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拓展阅读

• “skerry” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.