chimney: [14] Greek kámīnos meant ‘furnace’ (it was related to kamárā ‘vaulted room’, source of English camera and chamber). It was borrowed into Latin as camīnus, from which the adjective camīnātus ‘having a furnace, oven, etc’ was derived. By late Latin times this had become a noun, camīnāta, which passed into Old French as cheminee, and thence into English. The original meanings ‘fireplace’ and ‘stove’ persisted until the 19th century, but already in Old French the sense ‘flue’ had developed, which was finally to win out. => camera, chamber
chimney (n.)
late 13c., "furnace;" early 14c., "chimney stack of a fireplace;" late 14c., "fireplace in a residential space;" from Old French cheminee "fireplace; room with a fireplace; hearth; chimney stack" (12c., Modern French cheminée), from Late Latin (camera) caminata "fireplace; room with a fireplace," from Latin caminatus, adjective of caminus "furnace, forge; hearth, oven; flue," from Greek kaminos "furnace, oven, brick kiln." Jamieson [1808] notes that in vulgar use in Scotland it always is pronounced "chimley." Chimney sweep attested from 1610s, earlier chimney sweeper (c. 1500).
双语例句
1. A thin twist of smoke curled from the cottage's single chimney.
一缕盘旋的轻烟从农舍唯一的烟囱里缭绕升起。
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2. Smoke was curling up the chimney.
烟从烟囱里袅袅升起。
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3. The chimney was smoking fiercely.
烟囱里浓烟滚滚。
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4. I roped myself to the chimney.
我用绳子把自己系在烟囱上。
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5. He threw the paper onto the fire and it flew up the chimney.
