grenade: [16] The original grenades were small spherical explosive-filled cases with a wick on top. In shape, they bore more than a passing resemblance to pomegranates. The Old French term for ‘pomegranate’ was pome grenate, or just grenate for short, and it was this abbreviated form, altered to grenade under the influence of the related Spanish granada, that was applied to the explosive device. Grenadier [17] came from the French derivative grenadier ‘grenadethrower’. => grain, grenadier, pomegranate
grenade (n.)
"small explosive shell," thrown rather than discharged from a cannon, 1590s, earlier "pomegranate" (1520s), from Middle French grenade "pomegranate" (16c.), earlier grenate (12c.), from Old French pomegrenate (see pomegranate). Form influenced by Spanish granada. So called because the many-seeded fruit suggested the powder-filled, fragmenting bomb, or from similarities of shape. See pomegranate. Much used late 17c., they went out of use 18c. but were revived 20c.
雙語例句
1. Simon caught the grenade and hurled it back.
西蒙接住手榴彈，又把它大力擲了回去。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He was hit by shrapnel from a grenade.
他被手榴彈的彈片擊中了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He killed two policemen with a grenade.
他用一枚手榴彈炸死了兩名警察.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The hand - grenade exploded right over the enemy.
手榴彈在敵人頭上開花.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. Then with a loud explosion a hand - grenade immediately blew the whole group of officers into a disorderly pile of dead bodies.