hawk
英 [hɔːk]
美[hɔk]
- vt. 兜售，沿街叫卖；捕捉；咳出
- vi. 清嗓；咳嗽；像鹰一般地袭击
- n. 鹰；鹰派成员；掠夺他人的人
- n. (Hawk)人名；(英)霍克；(西)奥克
词态变化
复数: hawks;第三人称单数: hawks;过去式: hawked;过去分词: hawked;现在分词: hawking;
中文词源
hawk 鹰，隼
来自中古英语havek,来自PIE*kap,抓住，词源同have,heave,capable.后用于指猛禽鹰或隼。
英文词源
- hawk
- hawk: English has three current words hawk. The oldest, denoting the bird of prey [OE], comes from a prehistoric West and North Germanic *khabukaz, which also produced German habicht, Dutch havik, Swedish hök, and Danish hög. Hawk ‘peddle’ [16] is a back-formation from hawker. This was probably borrowed from Low German höker, a derivative ultimately of Middle Low German hōken ‘peddle’, which may well have been formed from the same base as produced English huckster. Hawk ‘clear the throat’ [16] probably originated as an imitation of the noise it denotes.
=> huckster - hawk (n.)
- c. 1300, hauk, earlier havek (c. 1200), from Old English hafoc (West Saxon), heafuc (Mercian), heafoc, "hawk," from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (cognates: Old Norse haukr, Old Saxon habuc, Middle Dutch havik, Old High German habuh, German Habicht "hawk"), from a root meaning "to seize," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (cognates: Russian kobec "a kind of falcon;" see capable). Transferred sense of "militarist" attested from 1956, probably based on its opposite, dove.
- hawk (v.1)
- "to sell in the open, peddle," late 15c., back-formation from hawker "itinerant vendor" (c. 1400), agent noun from Middle Low German höken "to peddle, carry on the back, squat," from Proto-Germanic *huk-. Related: Hawked; hawking. Despite the etymological connection with stooping under a burden on one's back, a hawker is technically distinguished from a peddler by use of a horse and cart or a van.
- hawk (v.2)
- "to hunt with a hawk," mid-14c., from hawk (n.).
- hawk (v.3)
- "to clear one's throat," 1580s, imitative.
双语例句
- 1. The hawk swooped and soared away carrying something.
- 那只鹰向下猛冲，抓住东西后又展翅高飞了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. A hawk hovered over the hill.
- 一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
来自《权威词典》
- 3. The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop.
- 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
来自《权威词典》
- 4. The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.
- 鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. A hawk hovered in the blue sky.
- 一只老鹰在蓝色的天空中翱翔.
来自《简明英汉词典》