• n. 窗臺；基石；門檻；[海洋] 海底山脊
• n. (Sill)人名；(英、德)西爾

來自古英語 syll,門檻，窗臺，來自 Proto-Germanic*suli,木柱，木板，來自 PIE*swel,木柱， 木板，詞源同 sylvan,森林的。

sill

sill: [OE] Sill originally denoted the ‘foundation of a wall’. Not until the 15th century was it used for the ‘base of a window-frame’. It is related to German schwelle ‘threshold’ and possibly also to English sole ‘underside of the foot’.

sill (n.)

Old English syll "beam, threshold, large timber serving as a foundation of a wall," from Proto-Germanic *suljo (cognates: Old Norse svill, Swedish syll, Danish syld "framework of a building," Middle Low German sull, Old High German swelli, German Schwelle "sill"), perhaps from PIE root *swel- (3) "post, board" (cognates: Greek selma "beam"). Meaning "lower horizontal part of a window opening" is recorded from early 15c.

1. A thin, glistening thread of moisture ran along the rough concrete sill.

在粗糙不平的水泥窗臺上有一條細細的發光水印。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers.

英國皇家空軍仍未脫離極為缺乏轟炸機的危境.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The blind was drawn, but I found a rift at the sill.

遮簾拉了下來, 但我在窗臺上找到了一個縫隙.

來自英漢文學 - 蓋茨比

4. Whitlock was perched on the sill of the room's only window.

惠特洛克坐在房間里僅有的那扇窗戶的邊沿上。

來自辭典例句

5. Winston sat back against the window - sill.

溫斯頓向窗臺一靠.

來自英漢文學