anvil

英 ['ænvɪl] 美 ['ænvɪl]

解释

※ 提供单词"anvil"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

anvil 砧板

an同on. -vil, 同词根pul, 击，打，见pulse, 脉膊。

anvil: anvil: [OE] Etymologically, an anvil is ‘something on which you hit something else’. The Old English word was anfīlte, which came from a prehistoric West Germanic compound formed from *ana ‘on’ and a verbal component meaning ‘hit’ (which was also the source of English felt, Latin pellere ‘hit’, and Swedish dialect filta ‘hit’). It is possible that the word may originally have been a loan-translation based on the Latin for ‘anvil’, incūs; for this too was a compound, based on in ‘in’ and the stem of the verb cūdere ‘hit’ (related to English hew).
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anvil (n.): Old English anfilt, a Proto-Germanic compound (cognates: Middle Dutch anvilt, Old High German anafalz, Dutch aanbeeld, Danish ambolt "anvil") from *ana- "on" + *filtan "hit" (see felt (n.)). The ear bone so called from 1680s. Anvil Chorus is based on the "Gypsy Song" that opens Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," first performed in Teatro Apollo, Rome, Jan. 19, 1853.

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1. His independence had been forged on the anvil of a harsh environment.: 他的独立性是在艰苦的环境中锤炼出来的。

5. The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly.: 订书机上的铁砧安装错位.