anvil: [OE] Etymologically, an anvil is ‘something on which you hit something else’. The Old English word was anfīlte, which came from a prehistoric West Germanic compound formed from *ana ‘on’ and a verbal component meaning ‘hit’ (which was also the source of English felt, Latin pellere ‘hit’, and Swedish dialect filta ‘hit’). It is possible that the word may originally have been a loan-translation based on the Latin for ‘anvil’, incūs; for this too was a compound, based on in ‘in’ and the stem of the verb cūdere ‘hit’ (related to English hew). => appeal
anvil (n.)
Old English anfilt, a Proto-Germanic compound (cognates: Middle Dutch anvilt, Old High German anafalz, Dutch aanbeeld, Danish ambolt "anvil") from *ana- "on" + *filtan "hit" (see felt (n.)). The ear bone so called from 1680s. Anvil Chorus is based on the "Gypsy Song" that opens Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," first performed in Teatro Apollo, Rome, Jan. 19, 1853.
例文
1. His independence had been forged on the anvil of a harsh environment.
彼の独立性は、厳しい環境の中で鍛えられてきた。
2.A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
真金は火を恐れず、好漢は試練を恐れない。
3.The blacksmith shaped a horseshoe on his anvil .
鍛冶屋は彼のアンビルに馬蹄形を打った。
4.The scheme is still on the anvil .
この計画はまだ計画中です。
5.The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly.