cane

• n. 手杖；藤條；細長的莖
• vt. 以杖擊；以藤編製
• n. (Cane)人名；(英)凱恩；(西、意)卡內；(塞)察內

來自拉丁詞canna, 蘆葦，後外延義甘蔗。

cane

cane: [14] Cane is a word of ancient ancestry. It can be traced back to Sumerian gin ‘reed’, and has come down to us via Assyrian kanū and Greek kánnā (a derivative of which, kánastron ‘wicker basket’, was the ultimate source of English canister [17]). Latin borrowed the word as canna, and broadened its meaning out from ‘reed, cane’ to ‘pipe’, which is the basis of English cannal, channel, cannon, and canyon. From Latin came Old French cane, source of the English word.
=> canal, canister, cannon, canyon, channel

cane (n.)

late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (compare Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s.

cane (v.)

"to beat with a walking stick," 1660s, from cane (n.). Related: Caned; caning.

1. In school, you knew if you misbehaved you would get the cane.

在學校不守規矩是要挨藤條的。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He stopped, shifting his cane to his left hand.

他停了下來，將手杖移到左手。

來自柯林斯例句

3. This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.

這甘蔗既甜又多汁.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The quiz showed up Cane's weak points in physics.

這次測驗看出了凱恩在物理學方麵的弱點.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.

英國小學老師過去常用教鞭打男學生作為懲罰.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》