trench

• n. 溝，溝渠；戰壕；塹壕
• vt. 掘溝
• vi. 挖戰壕；侵害
• n. (Trench)人名；(英、西)特倫奇

來自古法語 trenchier,去砍，劈，刨，挖，來自拉丁語 truncare,砍，切掉，詞源同 truncate,tranche. 后引申詞義溝，渠，特指戰壕。

trench

trench: [14] A trench is etymologically something ‘cut’ or ‘sliced’. The word was borrowed from Old French trenche ‘slice, cutting, ditch’, a derivative of trenchier ‘cut’ (from which English gets trenchant [14]). And this in turn went back to Latin truncāre ‘cut, mutilate’ (source of English truncate [15]), a derivative of truncus ‘tree-trunk, torso’ (source of English trunk) – the semantic link being the ‘cutting’ of branches from a tree or of limbs from a body.

The sense ‘ditch’ for trench comes of course from the notion of ‘cutting’ a long narrow hole in the ground (a similar inspiration underlies cutting ‘excavation for a railway, road, etc’). Trencher ‘platter’ [14] came from the Anglo-Norman derivative trenchour, and originally denoted both a board for ‘cutting’ food up on and a ‘slice’ of bread used as a plate.
=> trenchant, trencher, truncate, trunk

trench (n.)

late 14c., "track cut through a wood," later "long, narrow ditch" (late 15c.), from Old French trenche "a slice, cut, gash, slash; defensive ditch" (13c., Modern French tranche), from trenchier "to cut, carve, slice," possibly from Vulgar Latin *trincare, from Latin truncare "to cut or lop off" (see truncate). Trenches for military protection are first so called c. 1500. Trench warfare first attested 1918. Trench-coat first recorded 1916, a type of coat worn by British officers in the trenches during World War I.

1. They recaptured their trench.

他們重新奪回了塹壕.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Trench a fire by pulling down houses

拆倒房屋來隔絕火勢的蔓延

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3. Almost with fascination , Hearn watched Croft working on his trench knife.

侯恩冷眼瞧著克洛夫特磨刀,一時簡直瞧得出了神.

來自辭典例句

4. The soldiers raked the trench with machine - gun fire.

戰士們用機關槍向戰壕內掃射.

來自辭典例句

5. The soldiers recaptured their trench.

兵士奪回了戰壕.

來自辭典例句