wreck

英[rek] 美[r?k]

復數:?wrecks;第三人稱單數:?wrecks;過去式:?wrecked;過去分詞:?wrecked;現在分詞:?wrecking;

wreck 沉船，損壞

來自PIE*wreg,推，驅動，踐踏，來自PIE*wer的擴大形式，彎，轉，扭曲，詞源同urgent,wreak。引申義扭曲的物體，主要用于指船的殘骸，失事的船只等。

wreck: wreck: [13] Wreck goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *wreg-, a variant of which may be responsible for English urge. Its Germanic descendant *wrek- formed the basis of a verb *wrekan ‘drive’. The native English descendant of this is wreak [OE], which originally meant ‘drive out’, and developed its modern meaning via ‘give vent to anger or other violent emotions’. Wreck itself was acquired via Old Norse *wrek and Anglo-Norman wrec, and etymologically it denotes a ship that has been ‘driven’ on to the shore.

A variant of the same base, *wrak-, lies behind English wretch [OE] (etymologically someone ‘driven’ out, an ‘exile’) and also possibly French gar?on ‘boy’.
=> urge, wreak, wretch
wreck (n.): early 13c., "goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam," from Anglo-French wrec, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *wrek "wreck, flotsam" (cognates: Norwegian, Icelandic rek), related to reka "to drive, push," from Proto-Germanic *wrekan (see wreak (v.)). The meaning "a shipwreck" is first recorded mid-15c.; that of "a wrecked ship" is by c. 1500. General sense of "remains of anything that has been ruined" is recorded from 1713; applied by 1795 to dissipated persons. Compare wrack (v.).
wreck (v.): "to destroy, ruin," c. 1500, from wreck (n.). Earlier (12c.) it meant "drive out or away, remove;" also "take vengeance." Intransitive sense from 1670s. Related: Wrecked; wrecking.

1. The Navy is to carry out an examination of the wreck tomorrow.: 海軍明天將對失事船只進行細查。

3. The pilot struggled out of the wreck almost uninjured.: 飛行員艱難地從失事的飛機中爬出來，幾乎沒有受傷。

4. The precise location of the wreck was discovered in 1988.: 殘骸的確切位置是在1988年發(fā)現的。

5. This sighting occurred during my dive to a sunken wreck off Sardinia.: 這是我在撒丁島附近的沉船殘骸處潛水時所見的景象。