marsh: [OE] The immediate origin of marsh is Germanic: it comes from a prehistoric West Germanic. *marisk-, which also produced German marsch and Dutch marsk. This was probably a derivative of Germanic *mari ‘sea’ (source of English mere ‘lake’), whose relatives included Latin mare ‘sea’ (source of English marine). => marine, mere
marsh (n.)
Old English mersc, merisc "marsh, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *marisko (cognates: Old Frisian and Old Saxon marsk "marsh," Middle Dutch mersch, Dutch mars, German Marsch, Danish marsk), probably from Proto-Germanic *mari- "sea" (see mere (n.)).
双语例句
1. They sometimes sank knee-deep into the marsh.
他们不时陷入没膝的湿地。
来自柯林斯例句
2. A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.
马什的一群朋友劝他们说这是个馊主意。
来自柯林斯例句
3. At her London Hotel today Miss Marsh told reporters she might retire.
今天在伦敦旅馆,马什小姐告诉记者她可能要退休.
来自新概念英语第一册
4. The air, too, smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh.
这里的空气也比下面沼泽地旁清新多了.
来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
5. Marsh calls for fairly careful review of the agency decision.