tongs

英[tɒŋz] 美[tɔŋz]
  • n. [机] 夹具;钳子(tong的复数)
  • v. 用钳夹取(tong的三单形式)

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1. 谐音“痛”----该词的字面含义是“bite, that which bites”,咬你一下,当然痛啦,而夹子夹住东西,其实就像东西被咬住一样,所以才引申成“夹具、钳子”之意。

中文词源


tongs 钳子,夹具

来自古英语 tang,钳子,夹具,来自 Proto-Germanic*tango,钳子,夹具,来自 PIE*denk,咬, 词源同 tang,tough.

英文词源


tongs
tongs: [OE] The etymological notion underlying the word tongs is of ‘biting’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *tanguz (source also of German zange, Dutch and Danish tang, and Swedish tång), which went back ultimately to the Indo-European base *dank- ‘bite’ (ancestor of Greek dáknein ‘bite’). (Tong ‘Chinese secret society’ [19], incidentally, comes from Cantonese tong ‘assembly hall’.)
tongs (n.)
Old English tange, tang "tongs, pincers, foreceps, instrument for holding and lifting," from Proto-Germanic *tango (cognates: Old Saxon tanga, Old Norse töng, Swedish tång, Old Frisian tange, Middle Dutch tanghe, Dutch tang, Old High German zanga, German Zange "tongs"), literally "that which bites," from PIE root *denk- "to bite" (cognates: Sanskrit dasati "biter;" Greek daknein "to bite," dax "biting"). For sense evolution, compare French mordache "tongs," from mordre "to bite."

双语例句


1. a pair of tongs
一把夹剪

来自《权威词典》

2. She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.
她用火钳再夹一些煤放进炉子里.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs.
侍者用一把银钳从篮子里夹起面包卷。

来自柯林斯例句

4. They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.
他们又叫又喊又吵,每晚都要乐此不疲地闹腾6个小时。

来自柯林斯例句

5. He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.
他酷爱侍弄花草。只要下班一回到家,他就兴冲冲地忙活起来。

来自柯林斯例句