Earnname

• 1

  A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which flows into the tidal River Tay.

earnverb詞源 1/ɜːn/

• 1

  To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

  • You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well.
  • With their hard work and dedication, they earned respect and a seat at the table.
• 2

  To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).

  • He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO.  My bank account is only earning one percent interest.
  • She earns more than forty thousand dollars a year in passive income from her parents' investments — that's what she gets before she even gets out of bed or lifts a finger.
• 3

  To receive payment for work.

  • Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent.
• 4

  To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

  • My CD earns me six percent!
  • In that era, all their long, hard, dangerous labor in the mines barely earned them even enough to eat!
• 5

  To achieve by being worthy of.

  • to earn a spot in the top 20

earnverb詞源 2

• 1

  archaicdialectalTo curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

• 2

  obsoletedialectalOf milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.

earnverb詞源 3

• 1

  obsoletedialectalTo strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).

  • And ever as he rode, his hart did earne / To prove his puissance in battell brave.
• 2

  obsoletedialectalTo grieve.

  • [M]y manly heart doth erne. […] Boy, briſsle thy Courage vp: For Falſtaffe hee is dead, and wee muſt erne therefore.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• erne