defend

英[d?'fend] 美[d?'f?nd]

第三人稱單數:?defends;過去式:?defended;過去分詞:?defended;現在分詞:?defending;

1. 諧音“提防的”。

defend 防御

de-, 向下，離開。-fend, 擊，打，詞源同bane, offend. 即擊擋開，防御。

defend: defend: [13] Defend comes via Old French defendre from Latin dēfendere ‘ward off’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘off, away’ and an element that survives elsewhere only in other compound forms (represented in English by offend). It has been suggested that this is related to Sanskrit han- ‘strike’ and Old English gūth ‘battle’, and that it can be traced ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European *gwendh-.

Defend had not long become established in English when it produced the offspring fend, dispensing with the first syllable. This in turn formed the basis of the derivatives fender [15] and forfend [14]. Fence likewise comes from defence.
=> fence, fend
defend (v.): mid-13c., from Old French defendre (12c.) "defend, resist," and directly from Latin defendere "ward off, protect, guard, allege in defense," from de- "from, away" (see de-) + -fendere "to strike, push," from PIE root *gwhen- "to strike, kill" (see bane). In the Mercian hymns, Latin defendet is glossed by Old English gescildee. Related: Defended; defending.

1. Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.: 那些拿起武器自衛的人是些政治犯。

2. Torrence expects to defend her title successfully in the next Olympics.: 托倫斯希望在下屆奧運會上能夠衛冕成功。

3. Every man who could fight was now committed to defend the ridge.: 每個能夠參加戰斗的男子現在都決心要保衛這條山脊。

4. They are ready to defend themselves against Uncle Sam's imperialist policies.: 他們已做好抗擊美國帝國主義政策的準備。

5. To argue otherwise is trying to defend the indefensible.: 持相反的論點就是試圖為站不住腳的事情強辯。