foe
英 [f??]
美[fo]
- n. 敵人；反對者；危害物
低頻詞CET6+TEM4TOEFL常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?foes;
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foe：否。你說什么他都否定----個人的仇敵，敵人，反對者。
中文詞源
foe 敵人
來自PIE*peig, 敵對的，敵視的，詞源同feud, fiend.
英文詞源
- foe
- foe: [OE] Foe is the modern descendant of the Old English noun gefā ‘enemy’, a derivative of Germanic *faikh-. This also produced the Old English adjective fāh ‘hostile’, and was the ultimate source of modern English feud.
=> feud - foe (n.)
- Old English gefea, gefa "foe, enemy, adversary in a blood feud" (the prefix denotes "mutuality"), from adjective fah "at feud, hostile," also "guilty, criminal," from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cognates: Old High German fehan "to hate," Gothic faih "deception"), probably from PIE root *peig- (2) "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (cognates: Sanskrit pisunah "malicious," picacah "demon;" Greek pikros "bitter;" Latin piget "it irks, troubles, displeases," piger "reluctant, lazy;" Lithuanian piktas "wicked, angry," pekti "to blame"). Weaker sense of "adversary" is first recorded c. 1600.
雙語例句
- 1. He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.
- 他明白卡爾可能會成為他的死敵.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe.
- 宜將剩勇追窮寇.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. The stag at bay is a dangerous foe.
- 窮寇勿追.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 4. Shakur loses his fragile grip on reality and starts blasting away at friends and foe alike.
- 沙庫爾喪失了對形勢僅存的一點判斷，無論對敵對友都開始大加撻伐。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. A friend is a friend ; a foe is a foe; one must be clearly distinguished from the other.
- 敵是敵,友是 友, 必須分清界限.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》