| 正面 | 12162.tether 英 ['teðə]美 ['tɛðɚ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 谐音“特韧儿、太韧儿”----系绳、系链特别有韧性。2. tight => tet- + her => tether.3. gather => gether => to + gether => together => tether.4. to + gether => tether.5. tie + gather / gether => tether.6. tie => tether.n. 范围；系链；拴绳vt. 用绳或链拴住n. (Tether)人名；(英)特瑟 例句： 1. She was jealous, humiliated, and emotionally at the end of her tether.她既忌妒又感到屈辱，感情上已经到了崩溃的边缘。 tether 拴绳可能来自古诺斯语 tjothr,拴绳，来自 Proto-Germanic*teudran,绳子，来自 PIE*deu,绑紧，系牢， *tro,工具格后缀，词源同 rudder. tether (n.)late 14c., "rope for fastening an animal," not found in Old English, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse tjoðr "tether," from Proto-Germanic *teudran (cognates: Danish tøir, Old Swedish tiuther, Swedish tjuder, Old Frisian tiader, Middle Dutch tuder, Dutch tuier "line, rope," Old High German zeotar "pole of a cart"), from PIE root *deu- "to fasten" + instrumentive suffix *-tro-. Figurative sense of "measure of one's limitations" is attested from 1570s.tether (v.)late 14c. (implied in tethering), "confine by a tether," originally of grazing animals, from tether (n.). Figurative use also from late 14c. Related: Tethered." |