hansel是什么意思

双语例句

(1)Hansel, why do you stop and look round?

汉赛尔，你为什么停下到处看？

(2)The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel.

男孩名叫汉赛尔，女孩名叫格莱特。

(3)Hansel sprang like a bird from its cage when the door is opened.

当门打开的时候，汉赛尔像鸟儿一样从笼子里跳了出来。

(4)Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.

汉赛尔一点点地把所有的面包屑撒在路上。

(5)"We will set to work on that," said Hansel, "and have a good meal."

“我们放开肚皮吧，”汉赛尔说，“然后美美地吃一顿。”

释义

n.

a gift given at the beginning of the year or to mark an acquisition or the start of an enterprise, supposedly to bring good luck

（为庆祝新年、收购企业成功或公司开张，以求得吉利而给的）赠品；新年贺礼。

the first instalment of a payment

（分期付款中）第一次支付的款项。

v.

give a hansel to

给…送开张志喜的赠品；给…送贺礼

the practice of hanselling the master still flourished in Scotland.

给雇主送新年贺礼的风气在苏格兰依然盛行。

inaugurate (something), especially by being the first to try it

庆祝…的开张（或落成）

a floodlit fixture to officially hansel the completed stadium.

为庆祝新体育馆落成而预举行的泛光灯照明体育赛事。

词源

"Middle English （denoting luck）： apparently related to late Old English handselen ‘giving into a person's hands，’　and Old Norse handsal ‘giving of the hand to seal a promise'， from HAND　+ an element related to SELL； the notion of ‘luck'， however, is not present in these words．"