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neigh·bor AHD[nāʹbər] D.J.[ˈneɪbə]K.K.[ˈnebɚ]n.（名词）- One who lives near or next to another.邻居：住在一个人附近或紧挨一个人住的人
- A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.位置相近的人或事物：接近于一个人或位于其附近的人、地方或事物
- A fellow human being.人类
- Used as a form of familiar address.用做相近住址的一种形式
v.（动词）neigh.bored, neigh.bor.ing, neigh.bors v.tr.（及物动词）- To lie close to or border directly on.接壤：位于附近或直接相连
v.intr.（不及物动词）- To live or be situated close by.邻近：住在或位于附近
adj.（形容词）- Situated or living near another:邻近的：位于或住在附近的：a neighbor state.相邻州
- Middle English neighebor 中古英语 neighebor
- from Old English nēahgebūr 源自 古英语 nēahgebūr
- nēah [near] * see nēhw-iz nēah [附近的] * 参见 nēhw-iz
- gebūr [dweller] * see bheuə- gebūr [居民] * 参见 bheuə-
注释- Loving one's neighbor as oneself would be much easier,or perhaps much more difficult,if the wordneighbor had kept to its etymological meaning. The source of our word,the assumed West Germanic form.nāhgabūr, was a compound of the words.nēhwiz, "near,” and .būram, "dweller, especially a farmer.” A neighbor, then, was a near dweller.Nēahgebūr, the Old English descendant of this West Germanic word, and its descendant in Middle English, neighebor, and our Modern English neighbor have all retained the literal notion,even though one can now have many neighbors whom one does not know,a situation that would have been highly unlikely in earlier times.The extension of this word to mean "fellow" is probably attributable to the Christian concern with the treatment of one's fellow human beings,as in the passage in Matthew 19:19 that urges love of one's neighbor.象爱自己一样爱邻居会更容易，也可能更难，如果neighbor 这个词保持其词源意义的话。 这个词的来源，假定在西日耳曼语中形式为nahgabur， 是nehwiz “附近的”和 buram “居住者，尤指农夫”的合成词。 那么邻居就是附近的居住者。Neahgebur 这个西日耳曼词发展的古英语形式， 中世纪英语形式nerghebor 及现代英语 neighbor 形式， 都保持了字面意义，即使现在一个可能有许多人都不认识的邻居，这是一种以前很不可能有的情况。这个词的引申意义“人”大概出自基督徒关心如何对待世人，比如在《马太19：19》中就有要求热爱自己邻居的篇章
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