"cleared land," 1620s, from Old Norse or Old Danish tveit "a clearing, meadow, paddock," literally "a cutting, cut-piece" (related to Old English twitan "to cut, cut off;" see whittle). Always a rare word and now obsolete, but frequently encountered in place names, but "It is unclear whether the base meaning was 'something cut off, detached piece of land,' or 'something cut down, felled tree' ..." [Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names].
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Straddling this trio is the celebrated journalist himself, Marina's father, Murray Thwaite, the emperor.