ilk: [OE] Historically ilk means simply ‘same’. Its Old English form was ilca, which was ultimately a compound made up of the demonstrative particle *i- ‘that (same)’ and *līk- ‘form’ (as in the English verb like). It had virtually died out by the mid-16th century as a straight synonym for same, but one context in which it survived, particularly in Scottish English, was in the increasingly fossilized phrase of that ilk ‘of the same’, which was used originally to express the notion that someone’s name was the same as that of the place they came from: thus Nairn of that ilk would have signified ‘someone called Nairn from a place called Nairn’.
In due course it came to be applied specifically to landed Scottish families, and so strong did the connection with ‘family’ become that by the 19th century we see the first signs of ilk being treated as if it were a noun, meaning ‘family’. That led on in time to an even more general sense ‘type, sort’, capable of use in such expressions as ‘of a different ilk’.
ilk (adj.)
Old English ilca "same" (n. and adj.), from Proto-Germanic *ij-lik, in which the first element is from the PIE demonstrative particle *i- (see yon) and the second is that in Old English -lic "form" (see like). Of similar formation are which and such. Phrase of that ilk implies coincidence of name and estate, as in Lundie of Lundie; applied usually to families, so by c. 1790 it began to be used with meaning "family," then broadening to "type, sort."
雙語例句
1. He currently terrorises politicians and their ilk on "Newsnight"
他目前在《新聞之夜》節目中的講話搞得政客們惶恐不安。
來自柯林斯例句
2. the world of media people and their ilk
新聞媒體一類人等
來自《權威詞典》
3. Here we investigated whether integrin - linked kinase ( ILK ) may regulate LV remodeling and function after myocardial infarction.
本研究調查了整合素相關肌酶 ( ILK ) 是否可以調節心肌梗死后左室重塑及功能.
來自互聯網
4. ILK, α - SMA and Vimentin in renal tubular epithelial cells were detected by immunohistochemistry analysis.