bury: [OE] Modern English bury is a descendant of Old English byrgan, which came from the Germanic base *burg- (source also of English borough). The underlying meaning of the base was ‘protection, shelter’, and in the case of bury this referred to ‘covering a dead body with earth’ (in Old English, bury applied only to interment; the general sense ‘put underground’ did not develop until the 14th century). The derived burial goes back to Old English byrgels, which in Middle English times was mistaken for a plural. => borough
bury (v.)
Old English byrgan "to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter," akin to beorgan "to shelter," from Proto-Germanic *burzjan- "protection, shelter" (cognates: Old Saxon bergan, Dutch bergen, Old Norse bjarga, Swedish berga, Old High German bergan "protect, shelter, conceal," German bergen, Gothic bairgan "to save, preserve"), from PIE root *bhergh- (1) "to hide, protect" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic brego "I preserve, guard"). Related: Buried; burying. Burying-ground "cemetery" attested from 1711.
The Old English -y- was a short "oo" sound, like modern French -u-. Under normal circumstances it transformed into Modern English -i- (as in bridge, kiss, listen, sister), but in bury and a few other words (as in merry, knell) it retained a Kentish change to "e" that took place in the late Old English period. In the West Midlands, meanwhile, the Old English -y- sound persisted, slightly modified over time, giving the standard modern pronunciation of blush, much, church.
例文
1. When we feel anger，we bury the emotion and feel guilty instead.
私たちが怒りを感じると、この気持ちを抑えることはかえって後ろめたさを感じます。
2.His reaction was to withdraw,to bury himself in work.
彼の反応は身を引いて退き、仕事に没頭することだ。
3.It is time to bury our past misunderstandings.
は私たちが以前の恨みを捨てた時です。
4.Will the time never come when we may honorably bury the hatchet？
私たちは決して体裁よく休戦することはあり得ないのではないでしょうか。
5.It 's time to bury our differences and be friends again.