ambush

英 ['?mb??] 美['?mb??]

CET6+TEM8GRE中低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?ambushes;第三人稱單數(shù):?ambushes;過去式:?ambushed;過去分詞:?ambushed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?ambushing;

ambush“暗布施”-----埋伏

ambush 潛伏

來自法語(yǔ)。am-, 同前綴em-, 進(jìn)入，使，見embody, 具體化。bush, 叢林。

ambush: ambush: [14] Originally, ambush meant literally ‘put in a bush’ – or more precisely ‘hide in a wood, from where one can make a surprise attack’. The hypothetical Vulgar Latin verb *imboscāre was formed from the prefix in- and the noun *boscus ‘bush, thicket’ (a word of Germanic origin, related to English bush). In Old French this became embuschier, and when English acquired it its prefix gradually became transformed into am-.

In the 16th century, various related forms were borrowed into English – Spanish produced ambuscado, Italian was responsible for imboscata, and French embuscade was anglicized was ambuscade – but none now survives other than as an archaism.
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ambush (v.): c. 1300, from Old French embuscher (13c., Modern French emb?cher) "to lay an ambush," from en- "in" + busch "wood," apparently from Frankish *busk "bush, woods" (see bush (n.)). Related: Ambushed; ambushing.
ambush (n.): late 15c., embushe, from the English verb or from Middle French embusche, from Old French embuscher (see ambush (v.)). Earlier was ambushment (late 14c.). Figurative use by 1590s.

2. The gunmen, lying in ambush, opened fire, killing the driver.: 埋伏的槍手開槍打死了司機(jī)。

4. The enemy chased the decoys down to the place of ambush.: 敵人將誘騙者一直追到伏兵所在地.

5. Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.: 我方戰(zhàn)士埋伏在叢林中等待敵人.