brand

• vt. 銘刻于，銘記；打烙印于；印…商標于
• n. 商標，牌子；烙印
• n. (Brand)人名；(英、德、俄、西、意、羅、葡、捷、芬、瑞典、匈)布蘭德；(法)布朗

來自zero-grade 詞根br, 加熱，燃燒，詞源同burn . 原指用燃燒的鐵塊給牲畜做記號，后指品牌。

brand

brand: [OE] A brand was originally a ‘piece of burning wood’; the word comes from West and North Germanic *brandaz, a derivative of the same base (*bran-, *bren-) as produced burn, brandy, and perhaps broil. In the 16th century it came to be applied to an ‘(identifying) mark made with a hot iron’, which provided the basis for the modern sense ‘particular make of goods’, a 19th-century development.

A specialized (now archaic) sense of the word in English and other Germanic languages was ‘sword’ (perhaps from the flashing sword blade’s resemblance to a burning stick). This was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *brando, and its derived verb *brandīre came into English via Old French as brandish [14]. Brand-new [16] may be from the notion of emerging pristine from the furnace.
=> brandish, brandy, broil, burn

brand (n.)

Old English brand, brond "fire, flame; firebrand, piece of burning wood, torch," and (poetic) "sword," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (cognates: Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant, Old Frisian brond "firebrand, blade of a sword," German brand "fire"), from root *bran-/*bren- (see burn (v.)). Meaning "identifying mark made by a hot iron" (1550s) broadened by 1827 to "a particular make of goods." Brand name is from 1922.

brand (v.)

c. 1400, "to brand, cauterize; stigmatize," originally of criminal marks or cauterized wounds, from brand (n.). As a means of marking property, 1580s; figuratively from c. 1600, often in a bad sense, with the criminal marking in mind. Related: Branded; branding.

1. But that doesn't mean this brand of politics is dead or dying.

但那并不意味著這種政治主張已經(jīng)或正在消亡。

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2. The Sunday Times remains the brand leader by a huge margin.

《星期日泰晤士報》仍以巨大的優(yōu)勢穩(wěn)居報業(yè)龍頭的地位。

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3. It would be uneconomical to send a brand new tape.

寄一盤新磁帶過去不合算。

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4. Yesterday he went off to buy himself a brand-new car.

昨天他去給自己買了一輛嶄新的小汽車。

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5. Brand's keen ear caught the trace of an accent.

布蘭德敏銳的耳朵聽出了口音。

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