英语词典 · 单词释义
friend
英 [frend] 美 [frɛnd]
这里集中整理“friend”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 朋友；助手；赞助者
- n. (Friend)人名；(英)弗兰德
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: friends;
助记提示
1. friend, fiend: r 是一朵花，有花的是朋友，没花的是魔鬼.
中文词源
friend 朋友
来自PIE*pri, 爱，友爱，词源同free, Frigga. 引申词义朋友。
英文词源
- friend
- friend: [OE] Etymologically, friend means ‘loving’. It and its Germanic relatives (German freund, Dutch vriend, Swedish frände, etc) go back to the present participle of the prehistoric Germanic verb *frijōjan ‘love’ (historically, the German present participle ends in -nd, as in modern German -end; English -ng is an alteration of this). *Frijōjan itself was a derivative of the adjective *frijaz, from which modern English gets free, but which originally meant ‘dear, beloved’.
=> free - friend (n.)
- Old English freond "one attached to another by feelings of personal regard and preference," from Proto-Germanic *frijand- "lover, friend" (cognates: Old Norse frændi, Old Danish frynt, Old Frisian friund, Dutch vriend, Middle High German friunt, German Freund, Gothic frijonds "friend"), from PIE *priy-ont-, "loving," present participle form of root *pri- "to love" (see free (adj.)).
Meaning "a Quaker" (a member of the Society of Friends) is from 1670s. Feond ("fiend," originally "enemy") and freond often were paired alliteratively in Old English; both are masculine agent nouns derived from present participle of verbs, but they are not directly related to one another (see fiend). Related: Friends. - friend (v.)
- in the Facebook sense, attested from 2005, from the noun. Friend occasionally has been used as a verb in English since c. 1200 ("to be friends"), though the more usual verb for "join in friendship, act as a friend" is befriend. Related: Friended; friending. Old English had freonsped "an abundance of friends" (see speed (n.)); freondleast "want of friends;" freondspedig "rich in friends."
双语例句
- 1. I found myself behind a curtain, necking with my best friend'swife.
- 我意识到自己在帘子后面吻着至友的妻子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. How do we know you're not just covering up for your friend?
- 我们怎么知道你不只是在为自己的朋友遮掩呢？
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. I might buy one for a friend's birthday as a giggle.
- 我可能会买一件送给朋友当生日礼物，逗他开心。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. His best friend was killed by police under extremely questionable circumstances.
- 他最好的朋友在极其可疑的情况下被警察打死了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The encouragement of a friend spurred Chris into switching jobs.
- 在一位朋友的鼓励下，克理斯换了工作。
来自柯林斯例句
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