stork: [OE] The stork may get its name from its rather stiff-legged gait. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sturkaz, which also produced German storch and Dutch, Swedish, and Danish stork. This may have been formed from the base *sturk-, *stark-, *sterk- ‘rigid’, which also produced English starch and stark. => starch, stare, stark, starve, stereo
stork (n.)
Old English storc "stork," from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (cognates: Old Norse storkr, Swedish and Danish stork, Middle Dutch storc, Old High German storah, German Storch "stork"), from PIE *ster- "stiff" (cognates: Old English stear "stiff, strong;" see stark). Perhaps so called with reference to the bird's stiff or rigid posture. But some connect the word to Greek torgos "vulture."
Old Church Slavonic struku, Russian sterkhu, Lithuanian starkus, Hungarian eszterag, Albanian sterkjok "stork" are said to be Germanic loan-words. The children's fable that babies are brought by storks (told by adults who aren't ready to go into the details) is in English by 1854, from German and Dutch nursery stories, no doubt from the notion that storks nesting on one's roof meant good luck, often in the form of family happiness.
双语例句
1. A stork flew slowly past.
一只鹳缓缓飞过。
来自《权威词典》
2. Mary, don't you want me to be a laughing stork?
玛丽, 你愿意要我当个傻瓜蛋 吗 ?
来自辞典例句
3. He was flown out in a tiny Stork spotter plane to Rome.
他乘着一架怪鸟式小型侦察机飞抵罗马.
来自辞典例句
4. One night his ship, the Stork; pursued and rammed a U - boat in the darkness.
某夜,他的坐舰“ 鹳 鸟”号在黑夜之中追逐一艘潜艇并和它相撞.
来自辞典例句
5. We airfreight the shipment because our agent has run out of stork.