cling

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第三人稱單數:?clings;過去式:?clung;過去分詞:?clung;現在分詞:?clinging;

1. 克林頓同志看到女孩一定會靠著、靠過去。
2. cling => clinch, clench.
3. 諧音“扣拎，扣擰，扣鄰”---扣住擰緊，扣住緊鄰著他。
4. 諧音“可鄰”

cling 抓緊

來自PIE*glei,黏，粘，詞源同clay,glue.

cling: cling: [OE] The basic underlying sense of cling seems to be ‘stick, adhere’, but surviving records of the word in Old English reveal it only in the more specialized senses ‘congeal’ or ‘shrivel’ (the notion being that loss of moisture causes something to contract upon itself or adhere more closely to a surface). It is not really until the late 13th century that the more familiar ‘adhere’ (as in ‘a wet shirt clinging to someone’s back’) begins to show itself, and no hint that ‘clinging’ is something a human being can do with his or her arms emerges before the early 17th century.

The word goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *klingg-, whose variant *klengk- is the source of English clench [13] and clinch [16].
=> clench, clinch
cling (v.): Old English clingan "hold fast, adhere closely; congeal, shrivel" (strong verb, past tense clang, past participle clungen), from Proto-Germanic *klingg- (cognates: Danish klynge "to cluster;" Old High German klinga "narrow gorge;" Old Norse klengjask "press onward;" Danish klinke, Dutch klinken "to clench;" German Klinke "latch").

The main sense shifted in Middle English to "adhere to" (something else), "stick together." Of persons in embrace, c. 1600. Figuratively (to hopes, outmoded ideas, etc.), from 1580s. Of clothes from 1792. Related: Clung; clinging.

2. She had to cling onto the doorhandle until the pain passed.: 她不得不抓緊門把手，直到那陣疼痛過去。

3. She had to cling onto the door handle until the pain passed.: 她只好緊緊握住門把手，直到不疼了才松開。

5. Members of a family should cling together in times of trouble.: 一家人應該患難與共.