hew

大学

vt. 砍, 砍倒, 砍成 vi. 砍, 劈, 坚持

发音

其它 /hjuː/

词形变化

hews 复数 hewed hewedst hewen hewest heweth hewing hewn hews 三单 hews hewing 现在分词 hewed 过去式 hewn 过去式 hewn 过去分词 hewed 过去分词 hewen 过去式 hewen 过去分词

别名

hewe

教材释义与例句

动词

砍;劈;砍倒

动词

砍;劈;坚持

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Destruction by cutting down or hewing.

    可数 废旧 罕用 不可数
  2. 1.

    Hue; colour.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 2.

    Shape; form.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.

    及物/不及物
  2. 2.

    To shape; to form.

    及物

    to hew out a sepulchre

  3. 3.

    To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

    美国 及物

    Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

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词源

From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”). Cognate to West Frisian houwe (“to hew”), Cimbrian hauan (“to dig”), Dutch houwen (“to hew”), German hauen (“to hew”), Luxembourgish haen (“to chop”), Danish hugge (“to hew”), Faroese høgga (“to hew”), Icelandic höggva (“to hew”), Norwegian Bokmål hogge, hugge (“to hew”), Norwegian Nynorsk hogga (“to hew”), Swedish hugga (“to hew”). Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).

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