end
英 [end]
美[?nd]
- n. 結束；目標；盡頭；末端； 亡
- vi. 結束，終止；終結
- vt. 結束，終止；終結
- n. (End)人名；(英、德)恩德
CET4IELTS考研CET6高頻詞基本詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?ends;第三人稱單數:?ends;過去式:?ended;過去分詞:?ended;現在分詞:?ending;
中文詞源
end 結尾
來自PIE*ant, 相反，相對，詞源同前綴anti-. 即終端，分開點。
英文詞源
- end
- end: [OE] End is an ancient word, that has been traced back to an Indo-European *antjó. This also produced Sanskrit ántas ‘end’, as well as Latin ante ‘before’ and Greek anti ‘opposite’. Its Germanic descendant was *andja, from which came Gothic andeis, German ende, Dutch einde, Swedish ?nda, and English end.
- end (n.)
- Old English ende "end, conclusion, boundary, district, species, class," from Proto-Germanic *andja (cognates: Old Frisian enda, Old Dutch ende, Dutch einde, Old Norse endir "end;" Old High German enti "top, forehead, end," German Ende, Gothic andeis "end"), originally "the opposite side," from PIE *antjo "end, boundary," from root *ant- "opposite, in front of, before" (see ante).
Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring onely to make both ends meet. [Thomas Fuller, "The History of the Worthies of England," 1662]
Original sense of "outermost part" is obsolete except in phrase ends of the earth. Sense of "destruction, death" was in Old English. Meaning "division or quarter of a town" was in Old English. The end "the last straw, the limit" (in a disparaging sense) is from 1929. The end-man in minstrel troupes was one of the two at the ends of the semicircle of performers, who told funny stories and cracked jokes with the middle-man. U.S. football end zone is from 1909 (end for "side of the field occupied by one team" is from 1851). The noun phrase end-run is attested from 1893 in U.S. football; extended to military tactics by 1940. End time in reference to the end of the world is from 1917. To end it all "commit suicide" is attested by 1911. Be-all and end-all is from Shakespeare ("Macbeth" I.vii.5). - end (v.)
- Old English endian "to end, finish, abolish, destroy; come to an end, die," from the source of end (n.). Related: Ended; ending.
雙語例句
- 1. The agreement has raised hopes that the war may end soon.
- 那項協議使人們感到戰爭有望很快結束。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.
- 定量供應很久以前就結束了餅干過剩的狀況。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He had wandered to the far end of the room.
- 他轉到屋子的那一頭。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Only two go down at the end of this season.
- 本賽季末只有兩支隊伍降級。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. For some people, competing is the be-all and end-all of their running.
- 對于有些人來說，賽跑的全部意義就是競爭。
來自柯林斯例句