icicle

• n.氷柱；ぶら下がった氷；氷のように冷たい人

中世英語のice、氷、-icle、古英語方言のicicle、氷の結晶から。

icicle

icicle: [14] Historically, icicle is a tautology, meaning literally ‘ice icicle’. It originated in Middle English as a compound of ice and ickel ‘icicle’. This word, which survived dialectally into the 20th century as ickle, goes back to Old English gicel, which in turn was descended from a prehistoric Germanic *jakulaz (source also of modern Icelandic j?kull ‘glacier’).

icicle (n.)

early 14c., isykle, from is "ice" + ikel "icicle," from Old English gicel "icicle, ice" (rel. to cylegicel "cold ice"), from Proto-Germanic *jekilaz (cognates: Old Norse jaki "piece of ice," diminutive j?kull "icicle, ice, glacier;" Old High German ihilla "icicle"), from PIE *yeg- "ice." Dialectal ickle "icicle" survived into 20c.

1. She walked in，as chill as an icicle ，and as high as a princess.

彼女は入ってきた。氷の柱のように、冷たくて、お姫様のように高くて登れない。

2.The drops fell very slowly，as they fall from an iccle after the sun has gone.

血の滴下が遅く、まるで太陽が山に落ちた後の氷柱から滴下した水滴のようだ。dd>

3.The spectacle of the iccle in the cave is amazing.

石花洞のアイスクリームの奇観にはため息が出る。

4.This passioless girl was like an iccle in the sunshine.

この冷静な女の子は太陽の下の氷柱のようだ。

5.A large ice flee in the Arctic Ocean bears an iccle -trimmed cave.

北極海の巨大な流氷が、氷柱で飾られた洞窟を支えている。