苏尔伯雷

蘇爾伯雷

Sū'ěrbóléi

proper noun #35,020

Meanings

1 Sowerberry (a surname; notably the undertaker family in Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist)

Characters

revive (phonetic 'sow/su')

you (foreign-name suffix '-er')

uncle (phonetic 'ber/bo')

thunder (phonetic '-rry/lei')

Examples

奥利弗被送到苏尔伯雷家当学徒。

Àolìfú bèi sòngdào Sū'ěrbóléi jiādāng xuétú.

Oliver was sent to the Sowerberrys' as an apprentice.

苏尔伯雷先生是个殡葬员。

Sū'ěrbóléi xiānshēng shì gè bìnzàng yuán.

Mr. Sowerberry is an undertaker.

Tips

culture

苏尔伯雷 transliterates Sowerberry, the undertaker who takes in young Oliver as a coffin-maker's apprentice in Dickens's 《雾都孤儿》 (Oliver Twist). The four characters split phonetically: Sow-er-ber-ry → 苏-尔-伯-雷.

Stroke Order

苏 sū

尔 ěr

伯 bó

雷 léi