teach

来自古英语 taecan,指出，展示，教导，来自 Proto-Germanic*taikijan,展示，指出，来自 PIE*deik, 展示，指出，词源同 dictionary,token.现主要用于教育相关词义。

teach

teach: [OE] To teach someone is etymologically to ‘show’ them something. The word goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Indo-European base *deik- ‘show’, which also produced Greek deiknúnai ‘show’ (source of English paradigm [15]) and Latin dīcere ‘say’ (source of English diction, dictionary, etc). Its Germanic descendant was *taik-, which produced English token and German zeigen ‘show’. From it was derived the verb *taikjan, ancestor of English teach.
=> diction, dictionary, paradigm, token

teach (v.)

Old English tæcan (past tense tæhte, past participle tæht) "to show, point out, declare, demonstrate," also "to give instruction, train, assign, direct; warn; persuade," from Proto-Germanic *taikijan "to show" (cognates: Old High German zihan, German zeihen "to accuse," Gothic ga-teihan "to announce"), from PIE *deik- "to show, point out" (see diction). Related to Old English tacen, tacn "sign, mark" (see token). Related: Taught; teaching.

enraged Lemonade Vendor [Edgar Kennedy]: I'll teach you to kick me!
Chico: you don't have to teach me, I know how. [kicks him]

The usual sense of Old English tæcan was "show, declare, warn, persuade" (compare German zeigen "to show," from the same root); while the Old English word for "to teach, instruct, guide" was more commonly læran, source of modern learn and lore.

1. Most religions teach you to be truthful and self-disciplined.

多数宗教教导人们要真诚和律己。

2. He uses tapes of this program to teach English.

他用这个节目的录像带教授英语。

3. I want to teach Irish so that it won'tdie out.

我想教爱尔兰语，这样它就不会彻底消失。

4. The aim of discipline is to teach children to behave acceptably.

纪律的目的是教育儿童举止得体。

5. Rarely do schoolteachers have leeway to teach classes the way they want.

鲜有学校老师可随心所欲地教书的情况。