hunt: [OE] Hunt is an ancient word, probably traceable back to an Indo-European *kend-, which also produced Swedish hinna ‘reach’. Its original Old English descendant was hentan ‘seize’, of which huntian (source of modern English hunt) was a derivative. Etymologically, therefore, hunt means ‘try to seize’. => hand
hunt (v.)
Old English huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (cognates: Gothic hintan "to seize, capture," Old High German hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-.
General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c. 1200. Related: Hunted; hunting. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).
hunt (n.)
early 12c., from hunt (v.). Meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1570s.
雙語例句
1. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers.
這對夫婦曾幫著搜尋那些幼童。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young.
親鳥開始為幼鳥尋找食物。
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3. He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.
他動身前往新斯科舍參加為時19天的駝鹿捕獵活動。
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4. Steve Vickers was yellow-carded for a foul on Hunt.
史蒂夫·維克斯因對亨特犯規被出示黃牌。
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5. A leopard hunts alone, and an injured leopard cannot hunt.