hook: [OE] Hook and its Germanic relatives, German haken, Dutch haak, Swedish hake, and Danish hage, go back to a prehistoric *keg- or *keng- ‘bent object’, from which English also gets hank [14] (via Old Norse *hanku). Old Norse haki ‘hook’ was the source of a now obsolete English hake ‘hook’, which may have been the inspiration for the fish-name hake [15] (the hake having a hook-shaped lower jaw). Hookah ‘water-pipe’ [18], incidentally, has no etymological connection with hook; it comes via Urdu from Arabic huqqah ‘small box’. => hake, hank
hook (n.)
Old English hoc "hook, angle," perhaps related to Old English haca "bolt," from Proto-Germanic *hokaz/*hakan (cognates: Old Frisian hok, Middle Dutch hoek, Dutch haak, German Haken "hook"), from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (cognates: Russian kogot "claw"). For spelling, see hood (n.1).
Boxing sense of "short, swinging blow with the elbow bent" is from 1898. Figurative sense was in Middle English (see hooker). By hook or by crook (late 14c.) probably alludes to tools of professional thieves. Hook, line, and sinker "completely" is 1838, a metaphor from angling.
hook (v.)
"to bend like a hook," c. 1200; see hook (n.). Meaning "to catch (a fish) with a hook" is from c. 1300. Related: Hooked; hooking.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Water and electric hook-ups are available and facilities are good.
水和電都可以接通，設(shè)施也很不錯(cuò)。
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2. Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock's big left hook.
劉易斯無論如何得躲開拉多克凌厲的左鉤拳才行。
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3. He disconnected the IV bottle from the overhead hook.
他把靜脈滴注瓶從頭頂?shù)你^子上拿下來。
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4. The film "Hook" opens across America on December 11.
電影《鐵鉤船長(zhǎng)》12月11日在美國(guó)全線上映。
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5. They intend to get their way, by hook or by crook.