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defend
英 [dɪ'fend]美 [dɪ'fɛnd]
vt. 辯護；防護
vi. 保衛；防守
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1. 諧音“提防的”。中文詞源
defend 防禦
de-, 向下，離開。-fend, 擊，打，詞源同bane, offend. 即擊擋開，防禦。
英語詞源
defend
defend: [13] Defend comes via Old French defendre from Latin dēfendere ‘ward off’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘off, away’ and an element that survives elsewhere only in other compound forms (represented in English by offend). It has been suggested that this is related to Sanskrit han- ‘strike’ and Old English gūth ‘battle’, and that it can be traced ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European *gwendh-.
Defend had not long become established in English when it produced the offspring fend, dispensing with the first syllable. This in turn formed the basis of the derivatives fender [15] and forfend [14]. Fence likewise comes from defence.
=> fence, fend
defend (v.)
mid-13c., from Old French defendre (12c.) "defend, resist," and directly from Latin defendere "ward off, protect, guard, allege in defense," from de- "from, away" (see de-) + -fendere "to strike, push," from PIE root *gwhen- "to strike, kill" (see bane). In the Mercian hymns, Latin defendet is glossed by Old English gescildeð. Related: Defended; defending.
權威例句
1. Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
那些拿起武器自衛的人是些政治犯。
2. Torrence expects to defend her title successfully in the next Olympics.
託倫斯希望在下屆奧運會上能夠衛冕成功。
3. Every man who could fight was now committed to defend the ridge.
每個能夠參加戰鬥的男子現在都決心要保衛這條山脊。
4. They are ready to defend themselves against Uncle Sam's imperialist policies.
他們已做好抗擊美國帝國主義政策的準備。
5. To argue otherwise is trying to defend the indefensible.
持相反的論點就是試圖爲站不住腳的事情強辯。
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