carry: [14] For such a basic and common word, carry has a surprisingly brief history. It does not go back to some prehistoric Indo-European root, but was formed less than 1000 years ago in Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French, on the basis of carre or car (immediate source of English car). The verb carier thus meant literally ‘transport in a wheeled vehicle’. This sense was carried over into English, and though it has since largely given way to the more general ‘convey’, it is preserved in the derivative carriage, in such expressions as ‘carriage paid’. => car, carriage
carry (v.)
early 14c., from Anglo-French carier "to transport in a vehicle" or Old North French carrier "to cart, carry" (Modern French charrier), from Gallo-Roman *carrizare, from Late Latin carricare, from Latin carrum (see car).
Meaning "take by force" is from 1580s. Sense of "gain victory in an election" is from 1610s. Of sound, "to be heard at a distance" by 1896. Carrying capacity is attested from 1836. Carry on "continue to advance" is from 1640s; carryings-on "questionable doings" is from 1660s. Carry-castle (1590s) was an old descriptive term for an elephant.
carry (n.)
c. 1600, "vehicle for carrying," from carry (v.). U.S. football sense attested by 1949.
雙語例句
1. The indisputable fact is that computers carry out logical operations.
不容置疑的事實是，電腦執(zhí)行邏輯操作指令。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The Navy is to carry out an examination of the wreck tomorrow.
海軍明天將對失事船只進(jìn)行細(xì)查。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Many women know how to carry out repairs on their cars.
許多婦女懂得怎樣修自己的車。
來自柯林斯例句
4. All the ferries carry bicycles free or for a nominal charge.
所有的渡船都免費或以極低的收費運載自行車。
來自柯林斯例句
5. They were told to carry their wounded and leave their dead.