cane

英 [ke?n] 美[ken]

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復(fù)數(shù):?canes;第三人稱單數(shù):?canes;過(guò)去式:?caned;過(guò)去分詞:?caned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?caning;

1. canal, cannon, canyon, channel => cane.

cane 甘蔗

來(lái)自拉丁詞canna, 蘆葦，后外延義甘蔗。

cane: cane: [14] Cane is a word of ancient ancestry. It can be traced back to Sumerian gin ‘reed’, and has come down to us via Assyrian kanū and Greek kánnā (a derivative of which, kánastron ‘wicker basket’, was the ultimate source of English canister [17]). Latin borrowed the word as canna, and broadened its meaning out from ‘reed, cane’ to ‘pipe’, which is the basis of English cannal, channel, cannon, and canyon. From Latin came Old French cane, source of the English word.
=> canal, canister, cannon, canyon, channel
cane (n.): late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (compare Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s.
cane (v.): "to beat with a walking stick," 1660s, from cane (n.). Related: Caned; caning.

1. In school, you knew if you misbehaved you would get the cane.: 在學(xué)校不守規(guī)矩是要挨藤條的。

4. The quiz showed up Cane's weak points in physics.: 這次測(cè)驗(yàn)看出了凱恩在物理學(xué)方面的弱點(diǎn).

5. English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.: 英國(guó)小學(xué)老師過(guò)去常用教鞭打男學(xué)生作為懲罰.