weapon
英 ['wep(?)n]
美['w?p?n]
- n. 武器，兵器
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詞態(tài)變化
復數:?weapons;
中文詞源
weapon 武器
來自Proto-Germanic*waepan-,武器，可能來自PIE*weip的鼻音形式，彎，轉，揮舞，詞源同vibrate,wipe。引申詞義揮舞武器，刀劍等，最后用做武器。
英文詞源
- weapon
- weapon: [OE] Weapon comes from a prehistoric Germanic *w?pnam, a source it shares with German waffe, Dutch wapen, Swedish vapen, and Danish vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic form nothing certain is known.
- weapon (n.)
- Old English w?pen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *w?pnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic.
雙語例句
- 1. They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal.
- 他們已經無恥到把能用的武器都用上了。
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- 2. The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.
- 警察以攜帶攻擊性武器為由逮捕了我。
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- 3. The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon.
- 該報告概述了這種新式武器的可能用途。
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- 4. Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.
- 劉易斯因非法和不安全的開槍而受到了審判。
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- 5. Enriched uranium is a key component of a nuclear weapon.
- 濃縮鈾是核武器的關鍵組成部分。
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