gondola: [16] The gondola, the narrow boat used on Venetian canals, gets its name from the way it rocks gently in the water. Italian gondola is an adaptation of gondolà, a word meaning ‘roll, rock’ in the Rhaeto-Romanic dialect of Friuli, in northeastern Italy (Rhaeto-Romanic is a cover term for a group of Romance-language dialects spoken in southern Switzerland, northern Italy, and the Tyrol). Gondola was first applied to the cabin suspended from an airship or balloon in the 1890s (probably as a translation of German gondel).
1540s, "long, narrow flat-bottomed boat used in Venice," from Italian (Venetian) gondola, earlier in English as goundel, from Old Italian gondula, of unknown origin; according to Barnhart, perhaps a diminutive of gonda, a name of a kind of boat. Used of flat, open railway cars by 1871. Meaning "cabin of an airship" is from 1896, though it was used hypothetically in 1881 in a futurism piece titled "300 Years Hence." Of ski-lifts from 1957.
双语例句
1. The road is too narrow to allow the passage of gondola.
这条街太窄大型货车不能通过.
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2. I have a gondola here.
我开来了一条平底船.
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3. The Venetian gondola is as free and graceful in its gliding movement as a serpent.
威尼斯小艇划起来就象蟒蛇一样洒脱自在.
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4. Wow. I'll bet . But he wasn't in her gondola too?
哇, 真有你的. 不过,他不会也在她的贡多拉里 吧 ?
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5. The road is too narrow allow the passage of gondola.
