fist

英 [f?st] 美[f?st]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中低頻詞核心詞匯

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fist 拳

來自PIE*penkwe, 五，詞源同five, finger. 用于指拳頭。

fist: fist: [OE] Like finger, fist seems etymologically to be a reference to the number of fingers on the hand. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *fūstiz (source also of German faust and Dutch vuist). This may represent an earlier *fungkhstiz, which has been referred to an Indo- European ancestor *pngkstis, a derivative of *pengke ‘five’. (Dutch vuist ‘fist’, incidentally, is probably the source of English foist [16], which originally denoted the dishonest concealing of a dice in one’s hand.)
=> finger, five, foist
fist (n.): Old English fyst "fist, clenched hand," from West Germanic *fustiz (cognates: Old Saxon fust, Old High German fust, Old Frisian fest, Middle Dutch vuust, Dutch vuist, German Faust), from Proto-Germanic *funhstiz, probably ultimately from PIE *penkwe- "five" (see five, and compare Old Church Slavonic pesti, Russian piasti "fist").

Meaning "a blow with the fist" is from 1767. Fist-fight "duel with the fists" is from c. 1600. As a verb, Old English had fystlian "to strike with the fist."

1. Without warning, Bardo smacked his fist into his open hand.: 巴多沒有任何預兆地一拳砸在自己攤開的手掌上.

3. My son had a tantrum and banged his fist on the ground.: 我兒子大發脾氣，一拳捶在了地上。

4. He raised his right fist and declaimed: "Liar and cheat!": 他舉起右拳高喊：“騙子，騙子！”

5. The iron-fist policy towards the fundamentalists is unlikely to be interrupted.: 對原教旨主義者采取的鐵拳政策不可能中止。