tongs

英 [tɒŋz] 美 [tɔŋz]

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※ 提供单词"tongs"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。

tongs 钳子，夹具

来自古英语 tang,钳子，夹具，来自 Proto-Germanic*tango,钳子，夹具，来自 PIE*denk,咬，词源同 tang,tough.

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."

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3. The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs.: 侍者用一把银钳从篮子里夹起面包卷。

4. They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.: 他们又叫又喊又吵，每晚都要乐此不疲地闹腾6个小时。

5. He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.: 他酷爱侍弄花草。只要下班一回到家，他就兴冲冲地忙活起来。