helve
英 [helv]
美 [hɛlv]
助记提示
1. 同源词：helve, helm, halter.
2. 他们都表示用于控制某类工具的部件，这个部件是该工具的一部分，他们在具体含义上进行了细分。
3. helm, halter => helve.
shaft矛柄。
haft把柄。
helve斧柄。
4. hold => halt => halter => helve.
5. "that by which something is held".
中文词源
helve 武器或工具的把，柄来自古英语helfe,斧柄，来自PIE*kelp,抓住，握住，词源同halter,helm,help.
英文词源
- helve (n.)
- Old English helfe, hielfe "handle of an axe" or other tool or weapon, from Proto-Germanic *halb- (cognates: Old Saxon helvi, Middle Dutch helf, Old High German halb "handle of an axe," Old High German helmo "tiller"); related to halter and helm (1), from PIE *kelp- "to hold, grasp." In Middle English, to holden the axe bi the helve (c. 1200) meant "to take something by the right end."
双语例句
- 1. The axe go to the wood where it borrow its helve.
- 斧头伐木不畏缩,尽管斧柄木头做.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. Throw the helve after the hatchet.
- 赔了夫人又折兵.
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