shire: [OE] The original meaning of shire, which did not survive beyond the Old English period, was ‘official charge, administrative office’, and it has been suggested that the word is related ultimately to Latin cūra ‘care, charge’ (source of English curate, cure, etc). Already by the 9th century it was being used for an ‘a(chǎn)dministrative area ruled by a governor’, and over the next hundred years the application to what is now known as a county emerged. (County itself was introduced in the 14th century, and gradually ousted shire.) Sheriff is a compound based on shire. => sheriff
shire (n.)
Old English scir "administrative office, jurisdiction, stewardship, authority," also in particular use "district, province, country," from Proto-Germanic *skizo (cognates: Old High German scira "care, official charge"). Ousted since 14c. by Anglo-French county. The gentrified sense is from The Shires (1796), used by people in other parts of England of those counties that end in -shire; sense transferred to "hunting country of the Midlands" (1860).
雙語例句
1. My family home is in York-shire and they don't want to move.
我家人住在約克郡，他們不打算搬家。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I don't suppose you've seen Entwives in the Shire?
我想你們在夏爾沒有看到樹**子吧?
來自電影對白
3. Richard Bowen of Will shire Fashion, the United States.
伯恩:我是美國威爾榭時(shí)裝公司的理查德.伯恩.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. Whatlose in the hundred will be found in the shire.
失之東偶,收之桑榆.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Pray, Miss Eliza , are not shire militia removed from Meryton?