banyan

英 ['b?nj?n] 美['b?nj?n]

暢通詞匯

banyan 榕樹

印度語。同bania, 商人。來自印度過去流動商販在大榕樹下修一個小神龕祈禱，兼做生意。現今這種小神龕依然遍布印度各地。

banyan: banyan: [17] Banyan originally meant ‘Hindu trader’. It is an arabization of Gujarati vāniyān ‘traders’, which comes ultimately from Sanskrit vanija ‘merchant’ (the Portuguese version, banian, produced an alternative English spelling). When European travellers first visited Bandar Abbas, a port on the Persian Gulf, they found there a pagoda which the banyans had built in the shade of a large Indian fig tree. They immediately applied the name banyan to this particular tree, and the term later widened to include all such trees.
banyan (n.): "Indian fig tree," 1630s, so called in reference to a tree on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf under which the Hindu merchants known as banians had built a pagoda. From Sanskrit vanija "merchant."

1. This huge banyan tree has a history of more than 400 years.: 這棵大榕樹已經有四百多年的歷史了.

2. Dehong in the banyan tree in all the stations in the largest.: 在德宏榕樹在所有樹種中站的比重最大.

3. Wear the campus dime because had the big banyan more beautiful.: 著校園一角因為有了大榕樹更美了.

5. Look, Xiaoling is sitting on the grass under the big banyan tree.: 看, 小玲正坐在一棵大菩提樹下的草地上.