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英英释义
Noun:
"it was hidden in the rear of the store"
"the back entrance"
"the hinder part of a carcass"
"tripped when he stepped backward"
"she looked rearward out the window of the car"
"never look back"
"lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
"he hit me and I hit him back"
"I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher"
"I backed Kennedy in 1960"
"The car backed up and hit the tree"
"I can"t back this plan"
"endorse a new project"
"I"m betting on the new horse"
中英词源
back 背,后面
词源不详,可能来自拉丁词bacilum, 杆,指脊柱,竖背。与ridge, 山脊,横背相对应。
- back
- back: [OE] Back goes back to a prehistoric West and North Germanic *bakam, which was represented in several pre-medieval and medieval Germanic languages: Old High German bah, for example, and Old Norse bak. In most of them, however, it has been ousted by relatives of English ridge, originally ‘spine’ (such as German rücken and Swedish rygg), and only English retains back.
=> bacon - back (n.)
- Old English bæc "back," from Proto-Germanic *bakam (cognates: Old Saxon and Middle Dutch bak, Old Frisian bek), with no known connections outside Germanic. In other modern Germanic languages the cognates mostly have been ousted in this sense ib words akin to Modern English ridge (cognates: Danish ryg, German Rücken). Many Indo-European languages show signs of once having distinguished the horizontal back of an animal (or a mountain range) from the upright back of a human. In other cases, a modern word for "back" may come from a word related to "spine" (Italian schiena, Russian spina) or "shoulder, shoulder blade" (Spanish espalda, Polish plecy).
To turn (one"s) back on (someone or something) "ignore" is from early 14c. Behind (someone"s) back "clandestinely" is from late 14c. To know (something) like the back of one"s hand, implying familiarity, is first attested 1893. The first attested use of the phrase is from a dismissive speech made to a character in Robert Louis Stevenson"s "Catriona":If I durst speak to herself, you may be certain I would never dream of trusting it to you; because I know you like the back of my hand, and all your blustering talk is that much wind to me.
The story, a sequel to "Kidnapped," has a Scottish setting and context, and the back of my hand to you was noted in the late 19th century as a Scottish expression meaning "I will have nothing to do with you" [see Longmuir"s edition of Jamieson"s Scottish dictionary]. In English generally, the back of (one"s) hand has been used to imply contempt and rejection since at least 1300. Perhaps the connection of a menacing dismissal is what made Stevenson choose that particular anatomical reference. - back (v.)
- late 15c., "to move (something) back," from back (adv.). Meaning "to support" (as by a bet) is first attested 1540s. Related: Backed; backing.
- back (adj.)
- Middle English, from back (n.) and back (adv.). Formerly with comparative backer (c. 1400), also backermore. To be on the back burner in the figurative sense is from 1960, from the image of a cook keeping a pot there to simmer while he or she works on another concoction at the front of the stove.
- back (adv.)
- late 14c., shortened from abak, from Old English on bæc "backwards, behind, aback" (see back (n.)). Adverbial phrase back and forth attested from 1814.
词态变化
复数 backs;
第三人称单数 backs;
过去式 backed;
过去分词 backed;
现在分词 backing;
权威造句
- 1. If you love life, life will love you back.
- 热爱生活,生活也会厚爱你。
来自金山词霸 每日一句
- 2. We"ll go to a meeting in Birmingham and come straight back.
- 我们将去伯明翰参加会议,然后马上回来。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The rescuers were beaten back by strong winds and currents.
- 救援人员因风浪太大而被迫中断工作。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. I"ll report back the moment I have located him.
- 我一找到他就马上汇报。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. He ordered them to stack up pillows behind his back.
- 他命令他们把几个枕头叠放在自己的背后。
来自柯林斯例句
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