knife: [11] Knife is not a native English word, but a borrowing. It came from Old Norse knífr, which survives also in modern Swedish knif and Danish knif. It can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic *knībaz, which also produced German kneif ‘cobbler’s knife’, and was borrowed by French as canif ‘knife’, but its previous ancestry is not known.
knife (n.)
late Old English cnif, probably from Old Norse knifr, from Proto-Germanic *knibaz (cognates: Middle Low German knif, Middle Dutch cnijf, German kneif), of uncertain origin. To further confuse the etymology, there also are forms in -p-, such as Dutch knijp, German kneip. French canif "penknife" (mid-15c.) is borrowed from Middle English or Norse.
knife (v.)
1865, from knife (n.). Related: Knifed; knifing.
雙語例句
1. She produced the knife during arguments with her friends.
在和朋友爭吵的時候，她掏出了刀。
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2. The knife stuck in the ground at his feet.
刀扎在了他腳邊的地上。
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3. His surgical instruments were a knife and a pair of pincers.
他的外科手術器械是一把刀和一把鉗子。
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4. He picked up the knife and gave it to me.
他撿起刀子遞給我。
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5. Lightly score the surface of the steaks with a knife.