dagger

英 ['dægə] 美['dæɡɚ]

n. 匕首，短剑
vt. 用剑刺
n. (Dagger)人名；(俄)达格尔

近义词 bayonet jack-knife knife poniard sword short blade stiletto dirk bodkin stylet switchblade

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英英释义

1. a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing

2. a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

词组搭配

at daggers drawn

in bitter enmity

剑拔弩张

实用场景例句

He drew his dagger and turned to face his pursuers.: 他拔出匕首转身面向追他的人。

She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.: 在昨天的一次秘密行动中她从监狱获释。

This sound, like all music, pierced my heart like a dagger.: 这种声音像所有的音乐一样，如短剑般直刺我心。

The dagger stuck tightly in the silver scabbard.: 匕首牢牢地卡在银质刀鞘中。

The bad news is a dagger to his heart.: 这条坏消息刺痛了他的心.

He fell a victim to the dagger of an assassin.: 他死于刺客的刀下.

The murderer thrust a dagger into her heart.: 凶手将匕首刺进她的心脏.

He was stabbed with a dagger.: 他被刺了一匕首.

He thrust a dagger into her heart.: 他把匕首剌入她的心脏.

He darted a dagger at his enemy.: 他向敌人投匕首.

They met in classic cloak-and-dagger style beside the lake in St James's Park.: 他们像经典间谍片里所演的那样，偷偷摸摸地在圣詹姆斯公园的湖边相会。

Lying hidden at her waist, was a sharpened dagger.: 腰间别了一把磨得飞快的匕首.

The killer seems more comfortable with a phial than with a dagger: 相比匕首，凶手似乎更喜欢使用小药瓶。

That word is still like a dagger in the heart to you.: 这个字仍然象把匕首刺在你的心里.

The outlaw pulled out a dagger and bade defiance to the policemen.: 那名歹徒拔出匕首,悍然与警察对抗.

中文词源

dagger 匕首

可能来自拉丁语*daca, 地名Dacian，原罗马帝国行省。因产自Dacian而得名。

助记提示

1. 谐音“带钩儿”-----带钩儿的匕首。有古诗为证：男儿何不带吴钩，收取关山五十州。

双语例句

1. He drew his dagger and turned to face his pursuers.: 他拔出匕首转身面向追他的人。

2. She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.: 在昨天的一次秘密行动中她从监狱获释。

3. This sound, like all music, pierced my heart like a dagger.: 这种声音像所有的音乐一样，如短剑般直刺我心。

4. The dagger stuck tightly in the silver scabbard.: 匕首牢牢地卡在银质刀鞘中。

5. The bad news is a dagger to his heart.: 这条坏消息刺痛了他的心.

英文词源

dagger: dagger: [14] Dagger has an uncertain history. There was a verb dag in Middle English, meaning ‘stab’, which suggests that dagger may simply be ‘something that stabs’, but similarity of form and sense indicates a connection too with Old French dague ‘dagger’. This appears to have come via Old Provençal or Old Italian daga from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *daca, which meant literally ‘Dacian knife’ (from Latin Dācus ‘Dacian’). Dacia was the ancient name for an area roughly corresponding to modern Romania.
dagger (n.): late 14c., apparently from Old French dague "dagger," from Old Provençal dague or Italian daga, which is of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried a dagger"). Also compare dogwood. Middle Dutch dagge, Danish daggert, German Degen also are from French.

词态变化

复数: daggers;