hew

来自PIE*kau,击，打，砍，词源同hay,hoe.进一步来自PIE*sek,砍，劈，切，词源同segment,scissors.

hew (v.)

Old English heawan "to chop, hack, gash" (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, past participle heawen), earlier geheawan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (cognates: Old Norse hoggva, Old Frisian hawa, Old Saxon hauwan, Middle Dutch hauwen, Dutch houwen, Old High German houwan, German hauen "to cut, strike, hew"), from PIE root *kau- "to hew, strike" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic kovo, Lithuanian kauju "to beat, forge;" Latin cudere "to strike, beat;" Middle Irish cuad "beat, fight").

Weak past participle hewede appeared 14c., but hasn't displaced hewn. Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to) developed from hew to the line "stick to a course," literally "cut evenly with an axe or saw," first recorded 1891. Related: Hewed; hewing.

1. Every student must hew to the rules and regulations of the college.

每个学生都要遵守学校的规章制度.

2. He knew better than to attempt to hew rocks with razor.

他知道刀片不能劈石头.

3. We should hew to the Party's line.

我们应该坚持党的路线.

4. They hew it out of the rock.

他们用石头来雕它.

5. This made us rough - hew our plans.

这促使我们草草盘算我们的计划.