tongs
英 [tɒŋz]
美 [tɔŋz]
- n. [機] 夾具；鉗子（tong的複數）
- v. 用鉗夾取（tong的三單形式）
助記提示
1. 諧音“痛”----該詞的字麵含義是“bite, that which bites”，咬你一下，當然痛啦，而夾子夾住東西，其實就像東西被咬住一樣，所以才引申成“夾具、鉗子”之意。
中文詞源
tongs 鉗子，夾具來自古英語 tang,鉗子，夾具，來自 Proto-Germanic*tango,鉗子，夾具，來自 PIE*denk,咬， 詞源同 tang,tough.
英文詞源
- tongs
- tongs: [OE] The etymological notion underlying the word tongs is of ‘biting’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *tanguz (source also of German zange, Dutch and Danish tang, and Swedish tång), which went back ultimately to the Indo-European base *dank- ‘bite’ (ancestor of Greek dáknein ‘bite’). (Tong ‘Chinese secret society’ [19], incidentally, comes from Cantonese tong ‘assembly hall’.)
- tongs (n.)
- Old English tange, tang "tongs, pincers, foreceps, instrument for holding and lifting," from Proto-Germanic *tango (cognates: Old Saxon tanga, Old Norse töng, Swedish tång, Old Frisian tange, Middle Dutch tanghe, Dutch tang, Old High German zanga, German Zange "tongs"), literally "that which bites," from PIE root *denk- "to bite" (cognates: Sanskrit dasati "biter;" Greek daknein "to bite," dax "biting"). For sense evolution, compare French mordache "tongs," from mordre "to bite."
雙語例句
- 1. a pair of tongs
- 一把夾剪
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.
- 她用火鉗再夾一些煤放進爐子裏.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs.
- 侍者用一把銀鉗從籃子裏夾起麵包卷。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.
- 他們又叫又喊又吵，每晚都要樂此不疲地鬧騰6個小時。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.
- 他酷愛侍弄花草。隻要下班一回到家，他就興衝衝地忙活起來。
來自柯林斯例句