heel
英 [hiːl]
美 [hil]
- n. 腳後跟；踵
- vt. 傾側
- vi. 傾側
- n. (Heel)人名；(德)黑爾
助記提示
1. 諧音“鞋(四川方言發音：hai)哦、後哦”------鞋後哦-----腳後哦-----腳後跟哦。
2. high heel 高跟鞋.
3. heels 高跟鞋.
4. 阿喀琉斯之踵（Achilles' Heel），原指阿喀琉斯的腳跟，因是其唯一一個沒有浸泡到神水的地方，是他唯一的弱點。後來在特洛伊戰爭中被人射中致命，現在一般是指致命的弱點，要害。
阿喀琉斯，是凡人珀琉斯和美貌仙女忒提斯的寶貝兒子。忒提斯為了讓兒子煉成“金鍾罩”，在他剛出生時就將其倒提著浸進冥河，遺憾的是，乖兒被母親捏住的腳後跟卻不慎露在水外，全身留下了惟一一處“死穴”。後來，阿喀琉斯被太陽神阿波羅一箭射中了腳踝而死去。後人常以“阿喀琉斯之踵”譬喻這樣一個道理：即使是再強大的英雄，他也有致命的死穴或軟肋。
中文詞源
heel 腳跟來自PIE*kenk,彎，轉，膝彎，腳彎，詞源同hock,kink,-el,小詞後綴。引申詞義腳跟。拚寫比較nail,tile.
英文詞源
- heel
- heel: English has two separate words heel. The one that names the rear part of the foot [OE] comes ultimately from Germanic *khangkh-, which also produced English hock ‘quadruped’s joint corresponding to the human ankle’. From it was derived *khākhil-, source of Dutch hiel, Swedish häl, Danish hæl, and English heel. Heel ‘tilt, list’ [16] is probably descended from the Old English verb hieldan ‘incline’ (which survived dialectally into the 19th century), its -d mistaken as a past tense or past participle ending and removed to form a new infinitive. Hieldan itself came ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic adjective *khalthaz ‘inclined’.
=> hock - heel (n.1)
- "back of the foot," Old English hela, from Proto-Germanic *hanhilon (cognates: Old Norse hæll, Old Frisian hel, Dutch hiel), from PIE *kenk- (3) "heel, bend of the knee" (source also of Old English hoh "hock").
Meaning "back of a shoe or boot" is c. 1400. Down at heels (1732) refers to heels of boots or shoes worn down and the owner too poor to replace them. For Achilles' heel "only vulnerable spot" see Achilles. To "fight with (one's) heels" (fighten with heles) in Middle English meant "to run away." - heel (v.2)
- "to lean to one side," in reference to a ship, Old English hieldan "incline, lean, slope," from Proto-Germanic *helthijan (cognates: Middle Dutch helden "to lean," Dutch hellen, Old Norse hallr "inclined," Old High German halda, German halde "slope, declivity"). Re-spelled 16c. from Middle English hield, probably by misinterpretation of -d as a past tense suffix.
- heel (n.2)
- "contemptible person," 1914 in U.S. underworld slang, originally "incompetent or worthless criminal," perhaps from a sense of "person in the lowest position" and thus from heel (n.1).
- heel (v.1)
- of a dog, "to follow or stop at a person's heels," 1810, from heel (n.1). Also see heeled.
雙語例句
- 1. With a snarl, the second dog made a dive for his heel.
- 伴著一聲嗥叫，第二隻狗撲向了他的腳後跟。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Horton's Achilles heel was that he could not delegate.
- 霍頓的軟肋在於他不懂得放權。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She snagged a heel on a root and tumbled to the ground.
- 她腳後跟被一個樹根絆了一下，踉踉蹌蹌地摔倒在地上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He simply turned on his heel and walked away.
- 他突然就轉身走開了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Her dog yelped and came to heel.
- 她的狗汪地叫了一聲，緊跟了上來。
來自柯林斯例句