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Give Surrender French Surrendre Sur Grab Rendre Deliver

正面 8515.surrender
英 [sə'rendə]美 [sə'rɛndɚ]

背面
释义:
vt. 使投降;放弃;交出;听任vi. 投降;屈服;自首n. 投降;放弃;交出;屈服
例句:
1. Which do they want me to do? declare war or surrender?他们想让我做什么,宣战还是投降?

1. grab => grapple.2. 谐音“格来扑”-----一格斗就扑上来。3. grab => grasp(metathesis of *graps-), grapple.4. grasp <===> grapple.5. grape => grapple.6. grape: The original notion perhaps was "vine hook for grape-picking".
surrender 投降,屈服,放弃,交出sur-,在上,向上,render,给回,返还,给予,递交。原指放弃,交出,后引申词义投降,屈 服等,且成为主要词义。词义演变比较 give up.
surrendersurrender: [15] To surrender is etymologically to ‘give up’. The word was borrowed from Old French surrendre ‘deliver over, give up’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sur- ‘over’ and rendre ‘give, deliver’ (source of English render).=> rendersurrender (v.)mid-15c., "to give (something) up," from Old French surrendre "give up, deliver over" (13c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + rendre "give back" (see render (v.)). Reflexive sense of "to give oneself up" (especially as a prisoner) is from 1580s. Related: Surrendered; surrendering.surrender (n.)early 15c., in law, "a giving up" (of an estate, land grant, interest in property, etc.), from Anglo-French surrendre, Old French surrendre noun use of infinitive, "give up, deliver over" (see surrender (v.))."

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