ferd
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A journey; a voyage.
- Fear.
- Provisions for a journey, especially food.
- A fast pace; a rush or hurry.
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Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
— It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.
形容词 adj.
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Afraid.
— Out of Deuelin toun, The folk wel fast ran, In a water to droun, So ferd were thai than;Out of Dublin town, the townsfolk ran very fast into a river to drown, so afraid were they then;
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Fourth.
— George the ferd Erle of Hunlie and second of that name his sone, three. And Jane Gordoun his dochtir, the ferd.Given under our signet, at Edinburgh, the 23rd day of March, and of our reign the fourth year.
词源
词源 1
From Middle English ferde (“military expedition”), from Old English fierd; see fyrd. Cognate with Dutch vaart (“voyage”), German Fahrt (“journey”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English ferd (“fear, terror”), the past participle of feren (“to frighten”). More at fear.
词源 3
From Middle English ferthe (“fourth”), from Old English fēorþa, with th-stopping of /ð/ (voiced th) into /d/ (voiced t).
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