正面 | 1044.finger 英 ['fɪŋgə]美 ['fɪŋɡɚ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. tend (v.1): a shortening of attend.2. tend (v.2): tend- => tend "move in a certain direction". 伸展到某个方向,但具体是哪个方向不确定,因此后面接to(towards)来指明具体的方向。n. 手指;指针,指状物vt. 伸出;用手指拨弄vi. 用指触摸;拨弄n. (Finger)人名;(英、德、捷)芬格;(俄)芬格尔 例句: 1. Isn't it about time that you pulled your finger out?现在到了你该赶紧动起来的时候了吧? finger 手指来自PIE*penkwe, 五,词源同five,fist.用于指手指。 fingerfinger: [OE] Widespread among the Germanic languages (German, Swedish, and Danish all have finger, and Dutch vinger), finger is not found in any other branch of Indo-European. It is usually referred to a prehistoric Indo-European ancestor *pengkrós ‘number of five’, a derivative (like fist) of *pengke ‘five’.=> fist, fivefinger (n.)"terminal or digital member of the hand" (in a restricted sense not including the thumb), Old English finger, fingor "finger," from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (cognates: Old Saxon fingar, Old Frisian finger, Old Norse fingr, Dutch vinger, German Finger, Gothic figgrs "finger"), with no cognates outside Germanic; perhaps connected with PIE *penkwe-, the root meaning "five." As a unit of measure for liquor and gunshot (late Old English) it represents the breadth of a finger, about three-quarters of an inch. They generally are numbered from the thumb outward, and named index finger, fool's finger, leech- or physic-finger, and ear-finger.finger (v.)early 15c., "to touch or point to with the finger" (but see fingering (n.1) from late 14c.), from finger (n.). Sense of "play upon a musical instrument" is from 1510s. Meaning "touch or take thievishly" is from 1520s. The meaning "identify a criminal" is underworld slang first recorded 1930. Related: Fingered; fingering. Compare Dutch vingeren, German fingern, Swedish fingra, all from their respective nouns." |
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