fasten: [OE] Etymologically, fasten means ‘make fast’; it goes back ultimately to Germanic *fastuz, source of English fast. From this was derived a verb *fastinōjan, which passed into Old English as f?stnian. To begin with this seems only to have been used in the metaphorical sense ‘settle, establish’. The more concrete ‘attach’ is not recorded until the 12th century, and the earliest reference to its use for locking or bolting a door comes from as late as the mid-18th century. => fast
fasten (v.)
Old English f?stnian "make fast, make firm, fix, secure," also "ratify, betroth, confirm," from Proto-Germanic *fastinon "to make firm or fast" (cognates: Old Frisian festnia "to make firm, bind fast," Old Saxon fastnon, Old High German fastnion, German festnen, Old Norse fastna "to pledge, betroth"), from PIE *fast "solid, firm" (see fast (adj.)). Related: Fastened; fastening.
雙語例句
1. Builders must fasten down roofs of newly-built homes more securely.
建造工人必須把新建房屋的屋頂固定得更牢靠些。
來自柯林斯例句
2. They fasten with a drawstring.
它們是用拉繩系緊的。
來自《權威詞典》
3. Fasten your seatbelts, please.
請系好安全帶。
來自《權威詞典》
4. Fasten your seat belts.
系好安全帶。
來自《權威詞典》
5. When you sew up to this end, fasten off the thread.