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Finish Latin Line English Stem French End Limit

正面 918.finish
英 ['fɪnɪʃ]美 ['fɪnɪʃ]

背面
释义:
vt. 完成;结束;用完vi. 结束,终止;终结n. 结束;完美;回味(葡萄酒)
例句:
1. Elliott crossed the finish line just half a second behind his adversary.埃利奥特跨过终点线时仅比对手落后半秒钟。

1. 形象在内心.2. 形象在心里.
finish 完成来自拉丁语finis, 终结,边界,进一步来自拉丁语figere, 固定,标记,词源同fix.
finishfinish: [14] The Latin verb *fīnīre, a derivative of fīnis ‘end, limit’, signified ‘limit’ as well as ‘complete’, but it is the latter which has come down to English via feniss-, the stem of Old French fenir. The Latin past participle, fīnītus, gave English finite [15].=> final, finance, fine, finitefinish (v.)late 14c., "to bring to an end;" mid-15c., "to come to an end" (intransitive), from Old French finiss-, present participle stem of fenir "stop, finish, come to an end; die" (13c.), from Latin finire "to limit, set bounds; put an end to; come to an end," from finis "that which divides, a boundary, border," figuratively "a limit, an end, close, conclusion; an extremity, highest point; greatest degree," which is of unknown origin, perhaps related to figere "to fasten, fix" (see fix (v.)). Meaning "to kill, terminate the existence of" is from 1755.finish (n.)1779, "that which finishes or gives completion," from finish (v.). Meaning "the end" is from 1790. Finish line attested from 1873."

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