deed: [OE] Etymologically, a deed is ‘that which is done’. An ancient word, it can be traced back as far as a hypothetical *dhētis, a noun derived from *dhē-, *dhō- ‘place, put’, the Indo- European base from which do comes. This passed into Germanic as *dǣdiz, which produced German tat, Dutch daad, and Swedish dåad as well as English deed. The word’s application to a legal document is a 14th-century development. => do
deed (n.)
Old English dæd "a doing, act, action, transaction, event," from Proto-Germanic *dædis (cognates: Old Saxon dad, Old Norse dað, Old Frisian dede, Middle Dutch daet, Dutch daad, Old High German tat, German Tat "deed," Gothic gadeþs "a putting, placing"), from PIE *dhetis (cognates: Lithuanian detis "load, burden," Greek thesis "a placing, setting"), from *dhe- "place, put" (see do). Sense of "written legal document" is early 14c. As a verb, 1806, American English Related: Deeded; deeding.
双语例句
1. The perpetrators of this evil deed must be brought to justice.
必须将参与这一恶行的凶手绳之以法。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Smith changed his name by deed poll to Jervis-Smith.
史密斯通过单边契据将自己的名字更改为杰维斯&dash1;史密斯。
来自《权威词典》
3. A man's deed is the touchstone of his greatness or littleness.
行动是一个人伟大或者渺小的试金石.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. You are not going to fool me into such a deed.
你不要哄骗我去干那种事.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.
