weapon是什么意思

weapon

英 ['wep(?)n] 美 ['w?p?n]

weapon 武器

來自Proto-Germanic*waepan-,武器，可能來自PIE*weip的鼻音形式，彎，轉，揮舞，詞源同vibrate,wipe。引申詞義揮舞武器，刀劍等，最后用做武器。

weapon: weapon: [OE] Weapon comes from a prehistoric Germanic *w?pnam, a source it shares with German waffe, Dutch wapen, Swedish vapen, and Danish vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic form nothing certain is known.
weapon (n.): Old English w?pen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *w?pnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic.

1. They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal.: 他們已經無恥到把能用的武器都用上了。

2. The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.: 警察以攜帶攻擊性武器為由逮捕了我。

3. The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon.: 該報告概述了這種新式武器的可能用途。

4. Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.: 劉易斯因非法和不安全的開槍而受到了審判。

5. Enriched uranium is a key component of a nuclear weapon.: 濃縮鈾是核武器的關鍵組成部分。