fangの意味・使い方・発音

fang

英 [fæŋ] 美 [fæŋ]

毒牙

後に犬の歯、蛇の歯、毒牙を指すようになる。

fang: fang: [11] Fang originally meant ‘prey, spoils’ – a sense which survived well into the 18th century (‘Snap went the sheers, then in a wink, The fang was stow’d behind a bink [bench]’, Morrison, Poems 1790). It was related to a verb fang ‘take, capture’ which was very common in the Old and Middle English period, and which, like its surviving cousins German fangen, Dutch vangen, and Swedish f?nga, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *fangg- (English newfangled [15] is a memory of it).

The application of the word to an animal’s tooth does not emerge until as late as the 16th century, and although the broad semantic connection between ‘seizing’ and ‘sharp canine tooth’ is clear, the precise mechanism behind the development is not known.
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fang (n.): Old English fang "prey, spoils, plunder, booty; a seizing or taking," from gefangen, strong past participle of fon "seize, take, capture," from Proto-Germanic *fango- (cognates: Old Frisian fangia, Middle Dutch and Dutch vangen, Old Norse fanga, German fangen, Gothic fahan), from PIE root *pag- "to make firm, fix;" connected to Latin pax (genitive pacis) "peace" (see pact).

The sense of "canine tooth" (1550s) was not in Middle English and probably developed from Old English fengtoe, literally "catching- or grasping-tooth." Compare German Fangzahn. Transferred to the venom tooth of a serpent, etc., by 1800.

1. As Tseng Kuo- fang once said，'Believe not in heaven but in luck.'": 曽文正公は「天を信じず、運を信じる」と言った。

2.To add to his troubles，Ming- fang seemed to be avoiding him.

特に彼を不安にさせたのは、鳴鳳がわざと彼を避けているようだったことだ。dd>
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3.I'll have to use Mr. Fang 's address, " and with that she giggled.: 開方さんのお宅の住所が決まりました。

4. The outspoken Mrs. Liu asked, " Have you ever met this Fang fellow?: 劉さんは口が速くて、「この姓の方を見たことがありますか。