foe: [OE] Foe is the modern descendant of the Old English noun gefā ‘enemy’, a derivative of Germanic *faikh-. This also produced the Old English adjective fāh ‘hostile’, and was the ultimate source of modern English feud. => feud
foe (n.)
Old English gefea, gefa "foe, enemy, adversary in a blood feud" (the prefix denotes "mutuality"), from adjective fah "at feud, hostile," also "guilty, criminal," from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cognates: Old High German fehan "to hate," Gothic faih "deception"), probably from PIE root *peig- (2) "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (cognates: Sanskrit pisunah "malicious," picacah "demon;" Greek pikros "bitter;" Latin piget "it irks, troubles, displeases," piger "reluctant, lazy;" Lithuanian piktas "wicked, angry," pekti "to blame"). Weaker sense of "adversary" is first recorded c. 1600.
雙語例句
1. He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.
他明白卡爾可能會成為他的死敵.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe.
宜將剩勇追窮寇.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
3. The stag at bay is a dangerous foe.
窮寇勿追.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
4. Shakur loses his fragile grip on reality and starts blasting away at friends and foe alike.
沙庫爾喪失了對形勢僅存的一點判斷，無論對敵對友都開始大加撻伐。
來自柯林斯例句
5. A friend is a friend ; a foe is a foe; one must be clearly distinguished from the other.