| 正面 | 12154.fray 英 [freɪ]美 [fre]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. afraid => affray => fray.2. shortening of affray (q.v.; see also afraid).3. friction => fray.4. contraction and variant of friction.n. 争论；打架；磨损处vt. 使磨损；变得令人紧张、急躁vi. 被磨损n. (Fray)人名；(法)弗雷；(德)弗赖；(匈)弗劳伊 例句： 1. This kind of living was beginning to fray her nerves.这种生活开始让她神经紧张。 fray 磨损来自拉丁语fricare, 磨损，刮擦，词源同friction, dentifrice.fray 烦燥，恼火，吵架缩写自affray, 打架滋事，闹事，使恐慌，词源同afraid. fray (n.)mid-14c., "feeling of alarm," shortening of affray (q.v.; see also afraid). Meaning "a brawl, a fight" is from early 15c. (late 14c. in Anglo-Latin). Fraymaker "fighter, brawler" is found in a 1530s statute recorded by Prynne ("Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes," 1643). Nares' "Glossary" has frayment (1540s).fray (v.)"wear off by rubbing," c. 1400, from Old French fraiier, froiier "to rub against, scrape; thrust against" (also in reference to copulation), from Latin fricare "to rub, rub down" (see friction). Intransitive sense "to ravel out" (of fabric, etc.) is from 1721. The noun meaning "a frayed place in a garment" is from 1620s. Related: Frayed; fraying." |