cringe

英 [krɪn(d)ʒ] 美 [krɪndʒ]

解释

※ 提供单词"cringe"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。

cringe 畏缩

来自PIE*sker, 弯，转，词源同ring, curve. 词义由弯，转过渡到蜷缩，畏缩。

cringe: cringe: [13] Like crank, cringe appears to come ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic base *krank- whose original meaning was ‘bend’ or ‘curl up’. This produced an Old English verb crincan ‘fall in battle, yield’ (the association of ‘curling up’ and ‘dying’ is obvious), probable ancestor of modern English crinkle [14]. Crincan does not itself seem to be the source of cringe, which until the 16th century was usually spelled crenge or crench; to explain these eforms it is necessary to postulate *crencean, an unrecorded Old English causative derivative of crincan, meaning ‘cause to curl up’.
=> crank, crinkle
cringe (v.): early 13c., from causative of Old English cringan "give way, fall (in battle), become bent," from Proto-Germanic *krank- "bend, curl up" (cognates: Old Norse kringr, Dutch kring, German Kring "circle, ring"). Related: Cringed; cringing. As a noun from 1590s.

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2. He abandoned every particle of self - respect cringe and fawn.: 他把自尊心丢得一干二净.

4. Those two words in the title might have made you cringe.: 标题中的这两个字可能会吓你一跳.

5. They can be impulsive , faithful and take risks others may cringe from.: 在其他畏缩的时期,他们可能为所驱, 敦朴的担当风险.