dagger

英 ['dægə] 美 ['dæɡɚ]

解释

※ 提供单词"dagger"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。

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可能来自拉丁语*daca, 地名Dacian，原罗马帝国行省。因产自Dacian而得名。

dagger: dagger: [14] Dagger has an uncertain history. There was a verb dag in Middle English, meaning ‘stab’, which suggests that dagger may simply be ‘something that stabs’, but similarity of form and sense indicates a connection too with Old French dague ‘dagger’. This appears to have come via Old Provençal or Old Italian daga from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *daca, which meant literally ‘Dacian knife’ (from Latin Dācus ‘Dacian’). Dacia was the ancient name for an area roughly corresponding to modern Romania.
dagger (n.): late 14c., apparently from Old French dague "dagger," from Old Provençal dague or Italian daga, which is of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried a dagger"). Also compare dogwood. Middle Dutch dagge, Danish daggert, German Degen also are from French.

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2. She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.: 在昨天的一次秘密行动中她从监狱获释。

3. This sound, like all music, pierced my heart like a dagger.: 这种声音像所有的音乐一样，如短剑般直刺我心。