serried

英 ['ser?d] 美['s?r?d]

GRE

serried 密集的，密排的

可能來自法語 serry,使壓緊，緊壓，使成行，來自拉丁語 serare,連接，綁定，詞源同 series. 引申詞義密集的，密排的。

serried: serried: [17] The phrase serried ranks is first recorded in William Wilkie’s Epigoniad 1757, but it was clearly inspired by Milton’s ‘Nor serv’d it to relax their serried files’ in Paradise Lost 1667. It means ‘rows crowded close together’, and serried is the past participle of a now obsolete verb serry ‘press together’. This was borrowed from serré, the past participle of Old French serrer ‘close’, which went back via Vulgar Latin *serrāre to Latin sērāre, a derivative of the noun sera ‘lock, bolt’.
serried (adj.): "pressed close together," 1667 (in "Paradise Lost"), probably a past participle adjective from serry "to press close together" (1580s), a military term, from Middle French serre "close, compact" (12c.), past participle of serrer "press close, fasten," from Vulgar Latin *serrare "to bolt, lock up," from Latin serare, from sera "a bolt, bar, cross-bar," perhaps from PIE *ser- (3) "to line up" (see series). Modern use is due to the popularity of Scott, who used it with phalanx.

2. The fields were mostly patches laid on the serried landscape, between crevices and small streams.: 農田大部分是地縫和小溪之間的條狀小塊.

4. As the closely serried leaves bent , a tide of opaque emerald could be glimpsed.: 這時候葉子與花也有一絲的顫動,像閃電般,霎時傳過荷塘的那邊去了.

5. He could not as yet with the magnates the East the serried Sequoias of Wall Street.: 他還不能夠同東部大王們——華爾街林立的參天紅杉——并列.