hangnail
英 ['h??ne?l]
美 ['h??,nel]
中文詞源
hangnail 指甲根部的倒刺hang,懸掛，nail,指甲。比喻用法。
英文詞源
- hangnail (n.)
- also hang-nail, 1670s, probably folk etymology alteration (as if from hang (v.) + (finger) nail) of Middle English agnail, angnail, from Old English agnail, angnail "a corn on the foot," perhaps literally a "painful spike" (in the flesh), from Proto-Germanic *ang- "compressed, hard, painful" (from PIE *angh- "tight, painfully constricted, painful;" see anger) + Old English n?gl "spike" (see nail (n.)). Compare Old English angnes "anxiety, trouble, pain, fear," angset "eruption, pustule."
雙語例句
- 1. I have a hangnail, and my heart is - what?
- 我指甲旁有個肉刺, 我的心 - 什麼?
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- 2. It's an environment that is and highly exacting: every hangnail a sin, every eye - bag a crime.
- 環境就是這樣的嚴格: 每個手指倒刺都是過失, 每個眼袋都是罪惡.
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