Geoffrey
发音
How to pronounce Geoffrey in British English: 英 ['dʒefrɪ]
How to pronounce Geoffrey in American English: 美 ['dʒɛfri]
单词词源
- Geoffrey
- masc. personal name, attested in England by late 11c., from Old French Geuffroi, from Medieval Latin Gaufridus, from Old High German gewi "district" (German Gau; see gau) + fridu "peace" (see Frederick).
双语例句
- 1. Conservative mp geoffrey howe extolled the " discipline " of the marketplace .
- 2. The maths of cities , as expounded by geoffrey west , are not encouraging .
- 3. James geoffrey watched his parents divorce when he was 9 , but it didn 't scare him off marriage .
- 4. When geoffrey chaucer was writing in the 14th century there were no set spelling rules , but he managed to compose interesting texts nonetheless .
- 5. In the master bedroom of his falls church apartment hangs a world map with 38 push pins , each representing a country geoffrey has visited .