• n. 燈籠；提燈；燈籠式天窗

來自希臘語lampter,火炬，詞源同lamp,字母m,n音變。后用來指燈籠。

lantern

lantern: [13] Like lamp, lantern comes ultimately from the Greek verb lámbein ‘give light, shine’. Derived from this was the noun lamptér, which originally denoted ‘bunch of burning sticks, torch’, but was later extended to ‘lamp’. Latin borrowed it, and tacked on the ending of lucerna ‘lamp’ to produce lanterna, which English acquired via Old French lanterne. The translucent cover of lanterns was in former times usually made of horn, and so popular etymology from the 16th to the 19th centuries produced the spelling lanthorn.
=> lamp

lantern (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French lanterne "lamp, lantern, light" (12c.), from Latin lanterna "lantern, lamp, torch," altered (by influence of Latin lucerna "lamp") from Greek lampter "torch," from lampein "to shine" (see lamp). Variant lanthorn (16c.-19c.) was folk etymology based on the common use of horn as a translucent cover. Lantern-jaws "hollow, long cheeks" is from a resemblance noted since at least mid-14c.

1. I've been thinking I'd better have asked for a lantern.

我一直認(rèn)為我還不如要一個燈籠呢.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. There is an ice lantern show in Harbin every year in winter.

每年冬天,哈爾濱有一次冰燈展.

來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. The child next door carried a lantern.

隔壁的那個小孩提一個燈籠.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. A lantern depended from the ceiling.

一盞燈懸掛在天花板上.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. A little lantern blinked in the darkness.

一盞小燈籠在黑暗中微微閃光.

來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》