1. afraid => affray => fray.
2. shortening of affray (q.v.; see also afraid).
3. friction => fray.
4. contraction and variant of friction.
中文詞源
fray 磨損
來自拉丁語fricare, 磨損，刮擦，詞源同friction, dentifrice.
fray 煩燥，惱火，吵架
縮寫自affray, 打架滋事，鬧事，使恐慌，詞源同afraid.
英文詞源
fray (n.)
mid-14c., "feeling of alarm," shortening of affray (q.v.; see also afraid). Meaning "a brawl, a fight" is from early 15c. (late 14c. in Anglo-Latin). Fraymaker "fighter, brawler" is found in a 1530s statute recorded by Prynne ("Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes," 1643). Nares' "Glossary" has frayment (1540s).
fray (v.)
"wear off by rubbing," c. 1400, from Old French fraiier, froiier "to rub against, scrape; thrust against" (also in reference to copulation), from Latin fricare "to rub, rub down" (see friction). Intransitive sense "to ravel out" (of fabric, etc.) is from 1721. The noun meaning "a frayed place in a garment" is from 1620s. Related: Frayed; fraying.
雙語例句
1. This kind of living was beginning to fray her nerves.
這種生活開始讓她神經緊張。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Tempers began to fray as the two teams failed to score.
隨著兩隊都沒能破門得分，大家漸漸沉不住氣了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He would be inspiring young people to get into the political fray.
他會激勵年輕人投身政治戰鬥。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The stitching had begun to fray at the edges.
邊沿上的針腳已經開始磨損了。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Her washing machine tends to fray edges on intricate designs.