dint: [OE] Dint originally signified a ‘blow’ or ‘hit’, particularly one inflicted by a sword or similar weapon. Its meaning broadened out in the 14th century to ‘force of attack or impact’, and this is the source of the modern English phrase by dint of, which to begin with denoted ‘by force of’. In the 13th century a variant form dent arose, which by the 16th century had moved on metaphorically to the sense ‘depression made by a blow’.
dint (n.)
Old English dynt "blow dealt in fighting" (especially by a sword), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (cognates: Old Norse dyntr "blow, kick"). Phrase by dint of ... "by force of, by means of," is early 14c.
例文
1. He succeeds by dint of sheer hard work.
彼は完全に努力して仕事をして成功した。
2.They overcame all kinds of difficulties by dint of an indomitable spirit.
彼らは粘り強い精神で幾多の困難を克服した。
3.He succeeded by dint of hard work.
彼は苦労して成功した。
4.He has acquired，by dint of threatening to resign，a directorate-general with about 150 officials.
彼は辞任を脅迫して局長の座を獲得し、部下には約150人の役人がいた。
5.By dint of much trying he finally achieved his object.