cove
noun /kəʊv/
/kəʊv/
- enlarge imagea small bay (= an area of sea that is partly surrounded by land)
小海湾 - a secluded cove
僻静的小海湾
- a secluded cove
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) a man
家伙;汉子;小子
词源sense 1 Old English cofa ‘chamber, cave’, of Germanic origin; related to German Koben ‘pigsty, pen’. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.sense 2 mid 16th cent.: perhaps from Romany kova ‘thing or person’.