hope

英[h??p] 美[hop]

復數:?hopes;第三人稱單數:?hopes;過去式:?hoped;過去分詞:?hoped;現在分詞:?hoping;

hope 希望

來自古英語hopa,希望，期望，來自Proto-Germanic*hupo,希望，來自PIE*kwep,蒸發，蒸騰，沸騰，詞源同vapor,Cupid,cupidity.由沸騰引申詞義希冀，渴求，希望。

hope: hope: [OE] The origins of the word hope are obscure. It appears to have started life among the Low German dialects of northern Germany (whence English hope and Dutch hoop), and later spread to Scandinavia (giving Swedish hopp and Danish haab) and High German (modern German has the verb hoffen and the derived noun hoffnung ‘hope’). Where did the original Low German forms come from, though? A suggestion that has found some favour is that the word is related to hop, and that it started from the notion of ‘jumping to safety’. The theory goes that the ‘place of refuge’ thus reached gives one ‘hope’, but it has an air of desperation.
hope (v.): Old English hopian "wish, expect, look forward (to something)," of unknown origin, a general North Sea Germanic word (cognates: Old Frisian hopia, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch hopen; Middle High German hoffen "to hope," borrowed from Low German). Some suggest a connection with hop (v.) on the notion of "leaping in expectation" [Klein]. Related: Hoped; hoping.
hope (n.): Old English hopa, from hope (v.). Compare Old Frisian and Middle Dutch hope, Dutch hoop, all from their respective verbs.

1. The arteries are diseased and a transplant is the only hope.: 動脈已經發生病變，移植是唯一的希望。