fog

• n. 霧；煙霧，塵霧；迷惑
• vt. 使模糊；使困惑；以霧籠罩
• vi. 被霧籠罩；變模糊
• n. (Fog)人名；(丹)福

詞源不詳。

fog

fog: [16] The word fog is something of a mystery. It first appears in the 14th century meaning ‘long grass’, a use which persists in Yorkshire fog, the name of a species of grass. This may be of Scandinavian origin. The relationship, if any, between fog ‘grass’ and fog ‘mist’ is not immediately clear, but it has been speculated that the adjective foggy, which to begin with referred to places overgrown with long grass, and then passed via ‘of grassy wetlands’ to ‘boggy, marshy’ may have given rise via this last sense to a noun fog denoting the misty exhalations from such marshy ground.

A rather far-fetched semantic chain, perhaps, lacking documentary evidence at crucial points, and perhaps Danish fog ‘spray, shower’ may be closer to the real source.

fog (v.)

1590s (transitive), from fog (n.1). Intransitive use from 1849. Related: Fogged; fogging.

fog (n.1)

"thick, obscuring mist," 1540s, a back-formation from foggy (which appeared about the same time) or from a Scandinavian source akin to Danish fog "spray, shower, snowdrift," Old Norse fjuk "drifting snow storm." Compare also Old English fuht, Dutch vocht, German Feucht "damp, moist." Figurative phrase in a fog "at a loss what to do" first recorded c. 1600. Fog-lights is from 1962.

fog (n.2)

"long grass, second growth of grass after mowing," late 14c., probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian fogg "long grass in a moist hollow," Icelandic fuki "rotten sea grass." A connection to fog (n.1) via a notion of long grass growing in moist dells of northern Europe is tempting but not proven. Watkins suggests derivation from PIE *pu- (2) "to rot, decay" (see foul (adj.)).

1. His mind was in a fog when he finally got up.

他終於起床了，頭腦一片混沌。

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2. The fog had lifted and revealed a warm, sunny day.

霧已經散了，看來是溫暖晴朗的一天。

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3. She heard the sound of the guns thundering in the fog.

她聽到霧中傳來隆隆的槍炮聲。

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4. Synchronizing these attacks may be difficult in the fog of war.

在迷霧一樣的戰爭中可能很難同時發動這些攻擊。

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5. Some fog warning signs had been put up with flashing yellow lights.

一些配有黃色閃光燈的大霧警示標誌立了起來。

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