ambush
英['?mb??]
美['?mb??]
- n. 埋伏，伏擊；伏兵
- vt. 埋伏，伏擊
- vi. 埋伏
詞態變化
復數:?ambushes;第三人稱單數:?ambushes;過去式:?ambushed;過去分詞:?ambushed;現在分詞:?ambushing;
助記提示
ambush“暗布施”-----埋伏
中文詞源
ambush 潛伏
來自法語。am-, 同前綴em-, 進入，使，見embody, 具體化。bush, 叢林。
英文詞源
- ambush
- ambush: [14] Originally, ambush meant literally ‘put in a bush’ – or more precisely ‘hide in a wood, from where one can make a surprise attack’. The hypothetical Vulgar Latin verb *imboscāre was formed from the prefix in- and the noun *boscus ‘bush, thicket’ (a word of Germanic origin, related to English bush). In Old French this became embuschier, and when English acquired it its prefix gradually became transformed into am-.
In the 16th century, various related forms were borrowed into English – Spanish produced ambuscado, Italian was responsible for imboscata, and French embuscade was anglicized was ambuscade – but none now survives other than as an archaism.
=> bush - ambush (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French embuscher (13c., Modern French emb?cher) "to lay an ambush," from en- "in" + busch "wood," apparently from Frankish *busk "bush, woods" (see bush (n.)). Related: Ambushed; ambushing.
- ambush (n.)
- late 15c., embushe, from the English verb or from Middle French embusche, from Old French embuscher (see ambush (v.)). Earlier was ambushment (late 14c.). Figurative use by 1590s.
雙語例句
- 1. A policeman has been shot dead in an ambush.
- 一名警察在一次伏擊中中彈身亡。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The gunmen, lying in ambush, opened fire, killing the driver.
- 埋伏的槍手開槍打死了司機。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Two soldiers were killed in a terrorist ambush.
- 兩名士兵遭到恐怖分子伏擊而死亡。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The enemy chased the decoys down to the place of ambush.
- 敵人將誘騙者一直追到伏兵所在地.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.
- 我方戰士埋伏在叢林中等待敵人.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》