ransack

• vt. 洗劫，掠奪；遍尋

來自古諾斯語 ransakka,入室搶劫，來自 rann,屋子，房屋，詞源同 barn,saka,搜尋，翻找，詞 源同 seek.

ransack

ransack: [13] Ransack means etymologically ‘search a house’. It was borrowed from Old Norse rannsaka, a compound verb formed from rann ‘house’ (a relative of Old English ærn ‘house’, which underlies English barn) and -saka ‘search’ (a relative of English seek). A now defunct derivative was ransackle or ranshackle, from which we get modern English ramshackle [19].
=> barn, ramshackle, seek

ransack (v.)

mid-13c., from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse rannsaka "to pillage," literally "search the house" (especially legally, for stolen goods), from rann "house," from Proto-Germanic *raznan (c.f. Gothic razn, Old English ærn "house;" see barn) + saka "to search," related to Old Norse soekja "seek" (see seek). Sense influenced by sack (v.). Related: Ransacked; ransacking.

1. He began to ransack his mother's workbox for a piece of thread.

他要找一根線,開始翻騰媽媽的針線盒.

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2. She ransack my apartment for the bankbook.

她在我公寓裏到處搜索尋找存折.

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3. My girlfriend is angry mad, ransack boxes and chests finds out a dish mosquito - repellent incense comes.

我女朋友氣瘋了, 翻箱倒櫃找出一盤兒 蚊香 來.

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