blindfold

英 ['bla?n(d)f??ld] 美['bla?ndfold]

IELTS低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?blindfolds;第三人稱單數:?blindfolds;過去式:?blindfolded;過去分詞:?blindfolded;現在分詞:?blindfolding;

blindfold 蒙住眼睛，眼罩

改寫自古英語blindfellen。blind, 瞎。fell, 砍伐，擊倒。原指打瞎，后改成fold, 折疊，指眼罩。

blindfold: blindfold: [16] The original term for covering someone’s eyes with a bandage was blindfell [OE], which survived until the 16th century. This meant literally ‘strike someone blind’, the second element being the fell of ‘felling trees’. It appears that its past form, blindfelled, came to be mistaken for a present form, and this, together with some perceived connection with fold (presumably the ‘folding’ of the bandage round somebody’s head), conspired to produce the new verb blindfold.
blindfold (v.): 1520s, alteration, by similarity to fold, of blindfelled (early 14c.), past participle of blindfellan "blindfold, cover the eyes (with a bandage, etc.)," also "to strike blind" (c. 1200), from Old English (ge)blindfellian "to strike blind," from blind (adj.) + Anglian gefeollan "to strike down," as in to fell a tree (see fell (v.)). Related: Blindfolded; blindfolding.
blindfold (n.): 1880, from blindfold (v.).

2. The Australian chess grandmaster Ian Rogers took on six opponents blindfold and beat five.: 澳大利亞國際象棋頂級大師伊恩·羅杰斯和6位對手下盲棋，戰勝了5位。

3. He read the letter again although already he could have recited its contents blindfold.: 盡管對信的內容已經能夠倒背如流了，他還是又看了一遍。

4. I could do that blindfold , ie easily , regardless of obstacles.: 我蒙著眼也能做(不費吹灰之力, 無視任何障礙).