记忆方法
为了记住“hangnail”，可以将其拆解为两个部分：“hang”和“nail”。想象一个“nail”（指甲）不小心“hang”（悬挂）在某个地方，可能是因为不小心折断，使得它像是一个小东西悬挂在那里，这就是“hangnail”（倒刺）的情景。通过这种视觉联想，可以更容易地记住这个单词。
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中文词源
hangnail 指甲根部的倒刺
hang,悬挂，nail,指甲。比喻用法。
英语词源
- hangnail (n.)
- also hang-nail, 1670s, probably folk etymology alteration (as if from hang (v.) + (finger) nail) of Middle English agnail, angnail, from Old English agnail, angnail "a corn on the foot," perhaps literally a "painful spike" (in the flesh), from Proto-Germanic *ang- "compressed, hard, painful" (from PIE *angh- "tight, painfully constricted, painful;" see anger) + Old English nægl "spike" (see nail (n.)). Compare Old English angnes "anxiety, trouble, pain, fear," angset "eruption, pustule."
权威例句
- 1. I have a hangnail, and my heart is - what?
- 我指甲旁有个肉刺, 我的心 - 什麽?
- 2. It's an environment that is and highly exacting: every hangnail a sin, every eye - bag a crime.
- 环境就是这样的严格: 每个手指倒刺都是过失, 每个眼袋都是罪恶.