| 正面 | 13324.drench 英 [dren(t)ʃ]美 [drɛntʃ]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： drench湿透。drink吸水。vt. 使湿透；给（牲畜）灌药n. 滂沱大雨；浸液 例句： 1. He met a drench of rain.他遇上一场倾盆大雨. drench 使湿透词源同drink, 喝，饮。引申义湿透。 drenchdrench: [OE] Originally, drench meant simply ‘cause to drink’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic verb *drangkjan, which was a causative variant of *drengkan (source of English drink) – that is to say, it denoted ‘causing someone to do the action of the verb drink’. That particular sense now survives only as a technical usage in veterinary medicine, but already by the Middle English period it had moved on metaphorically to ‘drown’ (now obsolete, and succeeded by the related drown) and ‘soak thoroughly’.=> drink, drowndrench (v.)c. 1200, "to submerge, drown," from Old English drencan "give drink to, ply with drink, make drunk; soak, saturate; submerge, drown," causative of drincan "to drink" (see drink), from Proto-Germanic *drankijan (cognates: Old Norse drekkja, Swedish dränka, Dutch drenken, German tränken, Gothic dragkjan "to give to drink"). Sense of "to wet thoroughly by throwing liquid over" is from c. 1550. Related: Drenched; drenching." |