pound

• n. 英鎊；重擊，重擊聲；獸欄；拘留所
• vt. 搗爛；敲打；監禁，拘留
• vi. 連續重擊，猛擊
• n. (Pound)人名；(英)龐德

來自古英語pund,磅，英磅，來自Proto-Germanic*punda,磅，借自拉丁語pondo,重量，來自pendere,懸掛，稱量，詞源同pendulum,ponder.

來自古英語punian,擊打，粉碎，來自West-Germanic*puno,擊打，擊碎，可能來自擬聲詞。 插入字母d,比較sonar,sound.

詞源不確定，僅存在於古英語複合詞，如pundfald,畜欄，圍欄，詞源同古英語詞pyndan,關 閉，築壩，圍水，pond,池塘。最終詞源可能同bend.。

pound

pound: English has three distinct words pound. The measure of weight and unit of currency [OE] goes back ultimately to Latin pondō ‘12- ounce weight’, a relative of pondus ‘weight’ (source of English ponder) and pendere ‘weigh’ (source of English pension and poise). It was borrowed into prehistoric Germanic as *pundo, which has evolved into German pfund.

Dutch pond, Swedish pund, and English pound. Its monetary use comes from the notion of a ‘pound’ weight of silver. Pound ‘enclosure’ [14] is of unknown origin. It existed in Old English times in the compound pundfald, which has become modern English pinfold, and pond is a variant form of it. Pound ‘crush’ [OE] is almost equally mysterious.

In Old English it was pūnian (it did not acquire its final d until the 16th century, in fact), and it has been traced back to a Germanic *pūn-, which also produced Dutch puin ‘rubbish’.
=> pendant, pension, poise, ponder; pinfold, pond

pound (n.1)

measure of weight, Old English pund "pound" (in weight or money), also "pint," from Proto-Germanic *punda- "pound" as a measure of weight (source of Gothic pund, Old High German phunt, German Pfund, Middle Dutch pont, Old Frisian and Old Norse pund), early borrowing from Latin pondo "pound," originally in libra pondo "a pound by weight," from pondo (adv.) "by weight," ablative of *pondus "weight" (see span (v.)). Meaning "unit of money" was in Old English, originally "pound of silver."

At first "12 ounces;" meaning "16 ounces" was established before late 14c. Pound cake (1747) so called because it has a pound, more or less, of each ingredient. Pound of flesh is from "Merchant of Venice" IV.i. The abbreviations lb., £ are from libra, and reflect the medieval custom of keeping accounts in Latin.

pound (n.2)

"enclosed place for animals," late 14c., from a late Old English word attested in compounds (such as pundfald "penfold, pound"), related to pyndan "to dam up, enclose (water)," and thus from the same root as pond. Ultimate origin unknown; some sources indicate a possible root *bend meaning "protruding point" found only in Celtic and Germanic.

pound (v.)

"hit repeatedly," from Middle English pounen, from Old English punian "crush, pulverize, beat, bruise," from West Germanic *puno- (cognates: Low German pun, Dutch puin "fragments"). With intrusive -d- from 16c. Sense of "beat, thrash" is from 1790. Related: Pounded; pounding.

1. The one thousand pound bomb was triggered by a wire.

那顆重達1,000磅的炸彈是由一根導線引爆的。

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2. There was a sharp fall in the value of the pound.

英鎊大幅貶值。

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3. The drop was caused partly by the pound's strength against the dollar.

下降的部分原因在於英鎊對美元的升值。

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4. Beef now costs well over 30 roubles a pound.

牛肉現在賣到了每磅30多盧布。

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5. Integrating the pound with other European currencies could cause difficulties.

把英鎊與歐洲其他貨幣合並會引發許多難題。

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