Old English sceaf (plural sceafas) "large bundle of corn," from Proto-Germanic *skauf- (cognates: Old Saxon scof, Middle Dutch scoof, Dutch schoof, Old High German scoub "sheaf, bundle," German Schaub "sheaf;" Old Norse skauf "fox's tail;" Gothic skuft "hair on the head," German Schopf "tuft"), from PIE root *(s)keup- "cluster, tuft, hair of the head." Extended to bundles of things other than grain by c. 1300. Also used in Middle English for "two dozen arrows." General sense of "a collection" is from 1728.
雙語例句
1. He took out a sheaf of papers and leafed through them.
他拿出一遝報紙，匆匆翻閱了一下。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She moved the sheaf of papers into position.
她把那捆報紙挪到合適的地方。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The speaker came into the hall carrying a sheaf of notes.
演講者帶著一紮筆記走進大廳.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. This essentially implies that the presheaf is a sheaf.
這實質上蘊含著預層是一個層.
來自辭典例句
5. He drew a sheaf of papers from his breast pocket.