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fold n.羊栏，畜栏；v.折叠 fold (v.) Old English faldan (Mercian), fealdan (West Saxon), transitive, "to bend cloth back over itself," class VII strong verb (past tense feold, past participle fealden), from Proto-Germanic *falthan, *faldan (cognates: Middle Dutch vouden, Dutch vouwen, Old Norse falda, Middle Low German volden, Old High German faldan, German falten, Gothic falþan).The Germanic words are from PIE *pel-to- (cognates: Sanskrit putah "fold, pocket," Albanian pale "fold," Middle Irish alt "a joint," Lithuanian pleta "I plait"), from root *pel- (3) "to fold" (also source of Greek ploos "fold," Latin -plus).The weak form developed from 15c. In late Old English also of the arms. Intransitive sense, "become folded" is from c.1300 (of the body or limbs); earlier "give way, fail" (mid-13c.). Sense of "to yield to pressure" is from late 14c. Related: Folded; folding.fold (n.1) "pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals," Old English falæd, falud "stall, stable, cattle-pen," a general Germanic word (cognates: East Frisian folt "enclosure, dunghill," Dutch vaalt "dunghill," Danish fold "pen for sheep"), of uncertain origin. Figurative use by mid-14c.fold (n.2) "a bend or ply in anything," mid-13c., from fold (v.). 【记】折叠的畜栏

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[fəuld] 【英】 n. 羊栏，畜栏(a pen in which to keep sheep)；【考】 crease : folding / hole : perforating(折叠产生折痕/打洞 形成洞)【例】 receive somebody back into the fold(重新接受某人入 会) v. 折叠; n 羊栏【类】crease: folding = hole: perforating 折叠产生折痕 = 打洞形成洞

单词	fold
音标	[fəuld]
解释	n.羊栏，畜栏；v.折叠
红宝书	【英】 n. 羊栏，畜栏(a pen in which to keep sheep)；【考】 crease : folding / hole : perforating(折叠产生折痕/打洞形成洞) 【例】 receive somebody back into the fold(重新接受某人入会)
字源	fold (v.) Old English faldan (Mercian), fealdan (West Saxon), transitive, "to bend cloth back over itself," class VII strong verb (past tense feold, past participle fealden), from Proto-Germanic falthan, faldan (cognates: Middle Dutch vouden, Dutch vouwen, Old Norse falda, Middle Low German volden, Old High German faldan, German falten, Gothic falþan). The Germanic words are from PIE pel-to- (cognates: Sanskrit putah "fold, pocket," Albanian pale "fold," Middle Irish alt "a joint," Lithuanian pleta "I plait"), from root pel- (3) "to fold" (also source of Greek ploos "fold," Latin -plus). The weak form developed from 15c. In late Old English also of the arms. Intransitive sense, "become folded" is from c.1300 (of the body or limbs); earlier "give way, fail" (mid-13c.). Sense of "to yield to pressure" is from late 14c. Related: Folded; folding. fold (n.1) "pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals," Old English falæd, falud "stall, stable, cattle-pen," a general Germanic word (cognates: East Frisian folt "enclosure, dunghill," Dutch vaalt "dunghill," Danish fold "pen for sheep"), of uncertain origin. Figurative use by mid-14c. fold (n.2) "a bend or ply in anything," mid-13c., from fold (v.).
不择手段背单词	v. 折叠; n 羊栏【类】crease: folding = hole: perforating 折叠产生折痕 = 打洞形成洞
趣味全助记	【记】折叠的畜栏

Fold English Cognates Middle Dutch German Folding Back