axe
英 [?ks]
美
- n. 斧
- vt. 削減；用斧砍
- n. (Axe)人名；(瑞典)阿克塞；(英)阿克斯
CET4TEM4考研中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?axes;第三人稱單數:?axes;過去式:?axed;過去分詞:?axed;現在分詞:?axing;
助記提示
(用熟字記生字) axe 斧頭.事實上,hash 原來的意思就是用斧頭砍.經過反復
用斧頭修正,需要的樣子就出來了.于是引申為"反復推敲".我們中國人也常說"斧鑿,
斧正",表示修改. h 在西文中常不發音,容易脫落.所以 hash 就成了 axe.
(同族字例) hatchet 小斧; hack 用斧亂砍; hackle 砍,劈.
用斧頭修正,需要的樣子就出來了.于是引申為"反復推敲".我們中國人也常說"斧鑿,
斧正",表示修改. h 在西文中常不發音,容易脫落.所以 hash 就成了 axe.
(同族字例) hatchet 小斧; hack 用斧亂砍; hackle 砍,劈.
中文詞源
axe 斧子
詞源略。
英文詞源
- axe
- axe: [OE] Relatives of the word axe are widespread throughout the Indo-European languages, from German axt and Dutch aaks to Latin ascia and Greek axínē. These point back to a hypothetical Indo-European *agwesī or *akusī, which denoted some sort of cutting or hewing tool. The Old English form was ?x, and there is actually no historical justification for the modern British spelling axe, which first appeared in the late 14th century; as late as 1885 the Oxford English Dictionary made ax its main form, and it remains so in the USA.
- axe (n.)
- Old English ?ces (Northumbrian acas) "axe, pickaxe, hatchet," later ?x, from Proto-Germanic *akusjo (cognates: Old Saxon accus, Old Norse ex, Old Frisian axe, German Axt, Gothic aqizi), from PIE *agw(e)si- (cognates: Greek axine, Latin ascia).
The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which became prevalent during the 19th century; but it is now disused in Britain. [OED]
Meaning "musical instrument" is 1955, originally jazz slang for the saxophone; rock slang for "guitar" dates to 1967. The axe in figurative sense of cutting of anything (expenses, workers, etc.), especially as a cost-saving measure, is from 1922, probably from the notion of the headman's literal axe (itself attested from mid-15c.). To have an axe to grind is from an 1815 essay by U.S. editor and politician Charles Miner (1780-1865) in which a man flatters a boy and gets him to do the chore of axe-grinding for him, then leaves without offering thanks or recompense. Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin in Weekley, OED print edition, and many other sources.
The spelling ax, though "better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, & analogy" (OED), is so strange to 20th-c. eyes that it suggests pedantry & is unlikely to be restored. [Fowler] - axe (v.)
- 1670s, "to shape or cut with an axe," from axe (n.). Meaning "to remove, severely reduce," usually figurative, recorded by 1922. Related: Axed; axing.
雙語例句
- 1. Then the woodcutter let his axe fly— Thwack! Everyone heard it.
- 然后那個伐木工脫手甩出了斧頭。哐！每個人都聽見了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. St Bartholomew's is one of four London hospitals facing the axe.
- 圣巴塞洛繆醫院是倫敦4個面臨關閉的醫院之一。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Up to 300 workers are facing the axe at a struggling Merseyside firm.
- 艱苦掙扎的默西賽德公司有多達300名工人面臨被解雇。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. He fell the tree with a dozen blows of his axe.
- 他十幾斧頭就把樹砍倒了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The axe is too blunt to cut down the tree.
- 斧頭太鈍,砍不倒樹.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》