hound

英 [ha?nd] 美[ha?nd]

TEM4考研CET6IELTS中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?hounds;第三人稱單數:?hounds;過去式:?hounded;過去分詞:?hounded;現在分詞:?hounding;

1. hunt => hound.

hound 獵犬，獵狗

來自古英語hund,狗，來自PIE*kwon,狗，詞源同canine,cynic,kennel.引申詞義獵犬，獵狗。

hound: hound: [OE] Until superseded around the 16th century by dog, hound was the main English word for ‘dog’ (and indeed its relatives in the other Germanic languages remain so – German, Swedish, and Danish hund, for instance, and Dutch hond). It goes back ultimately to Indo- European *kuntos, a derivative of the base which also produced Greek kúōn ‘dog’ (source of English cynic and, according to some etymologists, quinsy), Latin canis ‘dog’ (whence French chien and Italian cane, not to mention English canine, canary, chenille, and kennel), Welsh ci ‘dog’ (as in corgi [20], literally ‘dwarf dog’), and Russian sobaka ‘dog’.

Since the 16th century, English hound has been used largely for ‘hunting dog’.
=> canary, canine, chenille, cynic, kennel, quinsy
hound (n.): Old English hund "dog," from Proto-Germanic *hundas (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian hund, Old High German hunt, German Hund, Old Norse hundr, Gothic hunds), from PIE *kuntos, dental enlargement of root *kwon- "dog" (see canine). Meaning narrowed 12c. to "dog used for hunting."
hound (v.): "hunt with hounds," 1520s, from hound (v.). Sense of "pursue relentlessly" is first recorded c. 1600. Related: Hounded; hounding.

1. The police have promised to hound down those responsible for the explosion.: 警方已保證要追查此次爆炸事件有責任的人員.

5. He was captured by the hound tracing the scent he left over along the path he had followed.: 他是由警犬追蹤他在自己走過的小道上留下的氣味而被捕獲的.