end
英 [end]
美[ɛnd]
- n. 结束；目标；尽头；末端；死亡
- vi. 结束，终止；终结
- vt. 结束，终止；终结
- n. (End)人名；(英、德)恩德
词态变化
复数: ends;第三人称单数: ends;过去式: ended;过去分词: ended;现在分词: ending;
中文词源
end 结尾
来自PIE*ant, 相反，相对，词源同前缀anti-. 即终端，分开点。
英文词源
- end
- end: [OE] End is an ancient word, that has been traced back to an Indo-European *antjó. This also produced Sanskrit ántas ‘end’, as well as Latin ante ‘before’ and Greek anti ‘opposite’. Its Germanic descendant was *andja, from which came Gothic andeis, German ende, Dutch einde, Swedish ända, and English end.
- end (n.)
- Old English ende "end, conclusion, boundary, district, species, class," from Proto-Germanic *andja (cognates: Old Frisian enda, Old Dutch ende, Dutch einde, Old Norse endir "end;" Old High German enti "top, forehead, end," German Ende, Gothic andeis "end"), originally "the opposite side," from PIE *antjo "end, boundary," from root *ant- "opposite, in front of, before" (see ante).
Worldly wealth he cared not for, desiring onely to make both ends meet. [Thomas Fuller, "The History of the Worthies of England," 1662]
Original sense of "outermost part" is obsolete except in phrase ends of the earth. Sense of "destruction, death" was in Old English. Meaning "division or quarter of a town" was in Old English. The end "the last straw, the limit" (in a disparaging sense) is from 1929. The end-man in minstrel troupes was one of the two at the ends of the semicircle of performers, who told funny stories and cracked jokes with the middle-man. U.S. football end zone is from 1909 (end for "side of the field occupied by one team" is from 1851). The noun phrase end-run is attested from 1893 in U.S. football; extended to military tactics by 1940. End time in reference to the end of the world is from 1917. To end it all "commit suicide" is attested by 1911. Be-all and end-all is from Shakespeare ("Macbeth" I.vii.5). - end (v.)
- Old English endian "to end, finish, abolish, destroy; come to an end, die," from the source of end (n.). Related: Ended; ending.
双语例句
- 1. The agreement has raised hopes that the war may end soon.
- 那项协议使人们感到战争有望很快结束。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Rationing had put an end to a surfeit of biscuits long ago.
- 定量供应很久以前就结束了饼干过剩的状况。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He had wandered to the far end of the room.
- 他转到屋子的那一头。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Only two go down at the end of this season.
- 本赛季末只有两支队伍降级。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. For some people, competing is the be-all and end-all of their running.
- 对于有些人来说，赛跑的全部意义就是竞争。
来自柯林斯例句