grip: [OE] Grip comes from a prehistoric Germanic verb *gripjan, derived from a base *grip-. Variants of this base produced gripe [OE] (which originally meant simply ‘grasp’), grope [OE], and possibly also grab. French borrowed it as gripper ‘seize’, from which English gets the now obsolete grippe ‘flu’ [18]. => grab, gripe, grope
grip (v.)
Old English grippan "to grip, seize, obtain" (class I strong verb; past tense grap, past participle gripen), from West Germanic *gripjan (cognates: Old High German gripfen "to rob," Old English gripan "to seize;" see gripe (v.)). Related: Gripped; gripping. French gripper "to seize," griffe "claw" are Germanic loan-words.
grip (n.)
c. 1200, "act of grasping or seizing; power or ability to grip," fusion of Old English gripe "grasp, clutch" and gripa "handful, sheaf" (see grip (v.)). Figurative use from mid-15c. Meaning "a handshake" (especially one of a secret society) is from 1785. Meaning "that by which anything is grasped" is from 1867. Meaning "stage hand" is from 1888, from their work shifting scenery.
雙語例句
1. How much can the President relax his grip over the nation?
總統可以對國家的控制放松到什么樣的程度？
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2. Such cars, however, do grip the road well, even in the dry.
不過，這種車即使在干燥路面上也表現出了良好的抓地性能。
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3. Luke answered by tightening his grip on her shoulder.
盧克的回應就是把她的肩頭抓得更緊了。
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4. Find the exact grip that allows you to hit the ball hard.
找到能讓你大力擊球的準確握拍方法。
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5. Harry loosened his grip momentarily and Anna wriggled free.