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bourne 音標拼音: [b'ɔrn] n. 小河;目的;目標;境界 小河;目的;目標;境界 bourne n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [ synonym: { bourn}, { bourne}] 2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [ synonym: { bourn}, { bourne}] Bourn \ Bourn\, Bourne \ Bourne\, n. [ F. borne. See { Bound} a limit.] A bound; a boundary; a limit. Hence: Point aimed at; goal. [ 1913 Webster] Where the land slopes to its watery bourn. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Sole bourn, sole wish, sole object of my song. -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] To make the doctrine . . . their intellectual bourne. -- Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster]
Bourn \ Bourn\, Bourne \ Bourne\, n. [ OE. burne, borne, AS. burna; akin to OS. brunno spring, G. born, brunnen, OHG. prunno, Goth. brunna, Icel. brunnr, and perh. to Gr. ?. The root is prob. that of burn, v., because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth. Cf. { Torrent}, and see { Burn}, v.] A stream or rivulet; a burn. [ 1913 Webster] My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Bourn
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