feat: [14] Etymologically, a feat is ‘something that is done’. The word comes via Old French fet from Latin factum ‘deed’, a noun based on the past participle of facere ‘make, do’, and is hence a doublet of English fact – that is to say, both words go back to an identical source, but have become differentiated (in this case because fact came directly from Latin, whereas feat was filtered through Old French). => fact, factory, fashion, feasible, feature
feat (n.)
mid-14c., "action, deeds," from Anglo-French fet, from Old French fait "action, deed, achievement" (12c.), from Latin factum "thing done," a noun based on the past participle of facere "make, do" (see factitious, and compare fact). Sense of "exceptional or noble deed" arose c. 1400 from phrase feat of arms (French fait d'armes).
雙語例句
1. The feat won them a prize of ￡85,000.
這一業績為他們贏得了85,000英鎊的獎金。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He performed a sensational acrobatic feat.
他表演了一套驚人的雜技功夫。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The tunnel is a brilliant feat of engineering.
這條隧道是工程方面的光輝業績。
來自《權威詞典》
4. Man's first landing on the moon was a feat of great daring.