forhold

发音

UK /fɔːˈhəʊld/
其它
UK /fə-/
US /fɔɹˈhoʊld/
US /fɚ-/

词形变化

forheld forholden forholding forholds 三单 forholds forholding 现在分词 forheld 过去式 forheld 过去分词 forholden 过去式 forholden 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To detain, hold back, or hold up (someone or something); also, to retain or withhold (something).

    古体 罕用 及物

    When the subject of contract is lawful, not public in its character, and the exercise of it is purely private and personal to the parties it can not be for holden or limited by the Legislature. According to the judgment the passage is a quotation from State v. Goodwill, 33 W. Va. 188 (1889), but the passage does not appear in the latter case.

词源

From Middle English forholden (“to withhold; to keep (a corpse) unburied”) [and other forms], from Old English forhealdan (“to keep or hold back (something), withhold; to hold away; to disregard, neglect; to hold wrongly, not to keep in good condition”), from for- (prefix meaning ‘away from; wrongly’) + healdan (“to grasp, hold fast; to possess”) (from Proto-West Germanic *haldan (“to hold; to keep”), from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to hold; to keep”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”)). The English word is analysable as for- + hold, and is cognate with Danish forholde (“to relate”), Dutch verhouden (“to relate”), Low German vorholden (“to detain”), German verhalten (“to control, restrain”), Norwegian forholde (“to deal”).

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