shut

英[??t] 美[??t]

反義詞open admit

第三人稱單數:?shuts;過去式:?shut;過去分詞:?shut;現在分詞:?shutting;

shut 關閉，合上

來自古英語 scyttan,合上門栓，推，關上，來自 West-Germanic*skutjan,推，合上，來自 PIE*skeud, 投，扔，射，推，詞源同 shoot,shot.

shut: shut: [OE] Shut comes ultimately from the same prehistoric Germanic base (*skaut-, *skeut-, *skut- ‘project’) that produced English shoot, and its underlying etymological reference is to the ‘shooting’ of a bolt across a door to fasten it. Its immediate West Germanic ancestor was *skuttjan, which also produced Dutch schutten ‘obstruct’. In Old English this became scyttan, which if it had evolved unchecked would have given modern English shit. For reasons of delicacy, perhaps, the West Midlands form shut was drafted into the general language in the 16th century.
=> sheet, shoot, shot, shout, shuttle
shut (v.): Old English scyttan "to put (a bolt) in place so as to fasten a door or gate, bolt, shut to; discharge, pay off," from West Germanic *skutjan (cognates: Old Frisian schetta, Middle Dutch schutten "to shut, shut up, obstruct"), from PIE *skeud- "to shoot, chase, throw" (see shoot (v.)). Related: Shutting.

Meaning "to close by folding or bringing together" is from mid-14c. Meaning "prevent ingress and egress" is from mid-14c. Sense of "to set (someone) free (from)" (c. 1500) is obsolete except in dialectal phrases such as to get shut of. To shut (one's) mouth "desist from speaking" is recorded from mid-14c.

1. Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.: 伯克匆匆地瞥了一眼菜單，然后啪地合上了。

3. The envelope has been tampered with and then taped shut again.: 信封被人動過手腳，然后又用膠帶封上了。

5. If you keep your eyes squeezed shut, you'llmiss the show.: 如果一直緊閉雙眼，你就要錯過精彩的表演了。