fledge
英 [fled?]
美[fl?d?]
- vi. 長羽毛
- vt. 裝上羽毛
暢通詞匯GRE
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?fledges;過去式:?fledged;過去分詞:?fledged;現在分詞:?fledging;
助記提示
1、fly => fledge. lay => ledge.
2、1、fly + -edge => fledge. lay + -edge => ledge.
3、含義：having the feathers, fit to fly.
2、1、fly + -edge => fledge. lay + -edge => ledge.
3、含義：having the feathers, fit to fly.
英文詞源
- fledge
- fledge: [16] The notion underlying fledge is the ‘ability to fly’. Historically, the idea of ‘having feathers’ is simply a secondary development of that underlying notion. The verb comes from an obsolete adjective fledge ‘feathered’, which goes back ultimately to a pre-historic West Germanic *fluggja (source also of German flügge ‘fledged’). This was derived from a variant of the base which produced English fly.
There is no immediate connection with fletcher ‘arrowmaker’ [14], despite the formal resemblance and the semantic connection with ‘putting feathered flights on arrows’, but further back in time there may be a link. Fletcher came from Old French flechier, a derivative of fleche ‘arrow’. A possible source for this was an unrecorded Frankish *fliugika, which, like fledge, could be traceable back to the same Germanic ancestor as that of English fly.
=> fly - fledge (v.)
- "to acquire feathers," 1560s, from Old English adjective *-flycge (Kentish -flecge; in unfligge "featherless," glossing Latin implumes) "having the feathers developed, fit to fly," from Proto-Germanic *flugja- "ready to fly" (cognates: Middle Dutch vlugge, Low German flügge), from PIE *pleuk- "to fly" (see fletcher). Meaning "bring up a bird" (until it can fly on its own) is from 1580s. Related: Fledged; fledging.
雙語例句
- 1. Those people should accuse of using living animals like chickens or rabbits fledge boa.
- 用活的動物，例如小雞或者兔子來喂養蟒蛇的人應該被譴責。
來自辭典例句