scythe

B2 大学 FREQ #29720

n. 长柄大镰刀, 大钐镰 vt. 用大镰刀割

发音

US /ˈsaɪð/

词形变化

scythes 复数 scythes scythed scythes 三单 scything scything 现在分词 scythed 过去式 scythed 过去分词

别名

sithe sythe zive

教材释义与例句

名词

长柄大镰刀；钐刀

动词

用大镰刀割

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.

  2. 2.

    A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.

    镰刀

    大镰刀

    大镰

    钐刀

    钐镰

    历史
  3. 3.

    The tenth Lenormand card.

    宗教 哲学
v.
  1. 1.

    To use a scythe.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To cut with a scythe.

    刈

    及物
  3. 3.

    To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To attack or injure as if cutting.

    比喻 不及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

edge tool
动词

上位词 2

mow cut down

相关短语

scythe down nature's scythe

词源

From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see. The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to folk-etymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindō (“to cut, rend, split”). The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.

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