daunt

参见：Daunt

英语

词源

源自中古英语 daunten，源自古法语 danter，源自拉丁语 domitō (“驯服”, 动词)，拉丁语 domō (“驯服，征服”, 动词)的反复态，源自原始意大利语 *domaō，源自原始印欧语 *demh₂- (“驯”)。dompt 的同源对似词。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助): /dɔːnt/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• (部分方言) 国际音标^(帮助): /dɑːnt/
• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助): /dɔnt/
• (cot–caught 合并) 国际音标^(帮助): /dɑnt/
• 韵部：-ɔːnt, -ɑːnt

动词

daunt (第三人称单数简单现在时 daunts，现在分词 daunting，一般过去时及过去分词 daunted)

1. (及物) 吓倒，使...气馁，威吓
   • Template:RQ:Speed Historie of Great Britaine
   • [1865?], Eugène Scribe, 译者 Charles Lamb Kenney, L’Africaine. An Opera in Five Acts, […] The Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer. Translated into English […], London: Published and sold by Chappell & Co., […], Boosey & Co., […], →OCLC, Act III，第 34 页:

     Death I'll meet, my soul no terrors daunting, / Take the life for which thy heart is panting, / Spare not thou, though he spare, his life granting, / Or let death end us both at a blow.

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   • 1912, Alexander Berkman, 章号 17, 出自 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist:

     No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender! I will fight and struggle, and not be daunted by threat or torture.

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   • 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, “A Lost Dream”, 出自 The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:

     Ah, I have changed, I do not know / Why lonely hours affect me so. / In days of yore, this were not wont, / No loneliness my soul could daunt.

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2. (及物) 压垮，压倒，征服

衍生词汇

• daunted
• daunter
• daunting
• dauntingly
• dauntless
• dauntsome
• undaunted

 

异序词

• Dutan

中古英语

动词

daunt

1. daunten的另一种写法