lark是什么意思

lark

英 [lɑ?k] 美 [lɑrk]

lark 百靈鳥，云雀

詞源不詳。

lark (n.1): "songbird," early 14c., earlier lauerche (c. 1200), from Old English lawerce (late Old English laferce), from Proto-Germanic *laiw(a)rikon (cognates: Old Saxon lewerka, Frisian liurk, Old Norse l?virik, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), of unknown origin. Some Old English and Old Norse forms suggest a compound meaning "treason-worker," but there is no folk tale to explain or support this.
lark (n.2): "spree, frolic," 1811, possibly shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang "play rough in the rigging of a ship" (larks were proverbial for high-flying), or from English dialectal lake/laik "to play" (c. 1300, from Old Norse leika "to play," from PIE *leig- "to leap") with intrusive -r- common in southern British dialect. The verb lake, considered characteristic of Northern English vocabulary, is the opposite of work but lacks the other meanings of play. As a verb, from 1813. Related: Larked; larking.

2. The boys didn't mean any harm—they just did it for a lark.: 那些男孩并無惡意—他們只是鬧著玩罷了。

3. He thinks it cruel to confine a lark in a cage.: 他認(rèn)為把云雀關(guān)在籠子里太殘忍了.

5. Try the LARK method and see how it works for you.: 試下LARK法,然后看看它對你的幫助有多少.