dagger

英 ['d?g?] 美['d?ɡ?]

CET6+TEM4GRETOEFL低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?daggers;

1. 諧音“帶鉤兒”-----帶鉤兒的匕首。有古詩(shī)為證：男兒何不帶吳鉤，收取關(guān)山五十州。

dagger 匕首

可能來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)*daca, 地名Dacian，原羅馬帝國(guó)行省。因產(chǎn)自Dacian而得名。

dagger: dagger: [14] Dagger has an uncertain history. There was a verb dag in Middle English, meaning ‘stab’, which suggests that dagger may simply be ‘something that stabs’, but similarity of form and sense indicates a connection too with Old French dague ‘dagger’. This appears to have come via Old Proven?al or Old Italian daga from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *daca, which meant literally ‘Dacian knife’ (from Latin Dācus ‘Dacian’). Dacia was the ancient name for an area roughly corresponding to modern Romania.
dagger (n.): late 14c., apparently from Old French dague "dagger," from Old Proven?al dague or Italian daga, which is of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried a dagger"). Also compare dogwood. Middle Dutch dagge, Danish daggert, German Degen also are from French.

1. He drew his dagger and turned to face his pursuers.: 他拔出匕首轉(zhuǎn)身面向追他的人。

2. She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.: 在昨天的一次秘密行動(dòng)中她從監(jiān)獄獲釋。

3. This sound, like all music, pierced my heart like a dagger.: 這種聲音像所有的音樂(lè)一樣，如短劍般直刺我心。