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1. 諧音“痛”----該詞的字面含義是“bite, that which bites”，咬你一下，當然痛啦，而夾子夾住東西，其實就像東西被咬住一樣，所以才引申成“夾具、鉗子”之意。

tongs 鉗子，夾具

來自古英語 tang,鉗子，夾具，來自 Proto-Germanic*tango,鉗子，夾具，來自 PIE*denk,咬，詞源同 tang,tough.

tongs: tongs: [OE] The etymological notion underlying the word tongs is of ‘biting’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *tanguz (source also of German zange, Dutch and Danish tang, and Swedish t?ng), which went back ultimately to the Indo-European base *dank- ‘bite’ (ancestor of Greek dáknein ‘bite’). (Tong ‘Chinese secret society’ [19], incidentally, comes from Cantonese tong ‘assembly hall’.)
tongs (n.): Old English tange, tang "tongs, pincers, foreceps, instrument for holding and lifting," from Proto-Germanic *tango (cognates: Old Saxon tanga, Old Norse t?ng, Swedish t?ng, Old Frisian tange, Middle Dutch tanghe, Dutch tang, Old High German zanga, German Zange "tongs"), literally "that which bites," from PIE root *denk- "to bite" (cognates: Sanskrit dasati "biter;" Greek daknein "to bite," dax "biting"). For sense evolution, compare French mordache "tongs," from mordre "to bite."

3. The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs.: 侍者用一把銀鉗從籃子里夾起面包卷。

4. They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.: 他們又叫又喊又吵，每晚都要樂此不疲地鬧騰6個小時。

5. He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.: 他酷愛侍弄花草。只要下班一回到家，他就興沖沖地忙活起來。