feud: [13] Feud signifies etymologically the ‘condition of being a foe’. It was borrowed from Old French fede or feide, and originally meant simply ‘hostility’; the modern sense ‘vendetta’ did not develop until the 15th century. The Old French word in turn was a borrowing from Old High German fēhida. This was a descendant of a prehistoric Germanic *faikhithō, a compound based on *faikh- ‘hostility’ (whence English foe).
Old English had a parallel descendant, fāhthu ‘enmity’, which appears to have died out before the Middle English period. It is not clear how the original Middle English form fede turned into modern English feud (the first signs of which began to appear in the late 16th century). => foe
feud (n.)
c. 1300, fede "enmity, hatred, hostility," northern English and Scottish, ultimately (via an unrecorded Old English word or Old French fede, faide "war, raid, hostility, hatred, enmity, feud, (legal) vengeance," which is from Germanic) from Proto-Germanic *faihitho (compare Old High German fehida "contention, quarrel, feud"), noun of state from adjective *faiho- (cognates: Old English fæhð "enmity," fah "hostile;" German Fehde "feud;" Old Frisian feithe "enmity").
This is from PIE root *peig- (2), also *peik- "evil-minded, hostile" (see foe). Sense of "vendetta" is early 15c. Alteration of spelling in 16c. is unexplained. Meaning "state of hostility between families or clans" is from 1580s.
feud (v.)
1670s, from feud (n.). Related: Feuded; feuding.
feud 英文释义
1. a bitter quarrel between two parties
feud 双语例句
1. The feud with the Catholics goes back to the 11th century.
与天主教的夙怨可以追溯到11世纪。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He also began a running feud with Dean Acheson.
他也开始接二连三地和艾奇逊院长发生争执。
来自柯林斯例句
3. a long-running feud between the two artists
两个艺术家之间的夙怨
来自《权威词典》
4. Sadly, the feud sums up the relationship between Lord Bath and the man who succeeds him.
不幸的是，巴思勋爵和他的继任者之间的关系只能用“积怨已久”来概括。
来自柯林斯例句
5. What were the beginnings of this tragic feud across the Rhine?
这次跨越来因河的悲剧的仇杀的开端是些什么 呢 ?
来自辞典例句
feud 实用场景例句
The feud with the Catholics goes back to the 11th century.
与天主教的夙怨可以追溯到11世纪。
柯林斯例句
He also began a running feud with Dean Acheson.
他也开始接二连三地和艾奇逊院长发生争执。
柯林斯例句
a long-running feud between the two artists
两个艺术家之间的夙怨
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
Sadly, the feud sums up the relationship between Lord Bath and the man who succeeds him.
不幸的是，巴思勋爵和他的继任者之间的关系只能用“积怨已久”来概括。
柯林斯例句
What were the beginnings of this tragic feud across the Rhine?
这次跨越来因河的悲剧的仇杀的开端是些什么 呢 ?
辞典例句
How did he start his feud with his neighbor?
他是怎样和邻居开始争吵起来的?
辞典例句
The roots of his demise lay much earlier in the Golitsin - Nossenko feud.
他失意的根源还要早得多,要追溯到戈里钦和森科问题的斗争上去.
辞典例句
Because of a family feud she could not marry him.
由于家庭之间的宿怨她不能和他结婚.
辞典例句
The two tribes were long at feud with each other.
这两个部族长期不和.
辞典例句
Insults only served to inflame the feud.
侮辱只是起了加剧长期不和的作用.
辞典例句
Isaac Newton had a bitter feud with Leibniz.
牛顿就曾与莱布尼兹成为冤家.
辞典例句
Kay's family were at feud with Tom's.
凯的家人与汤姆的家人不和.
辞典例句
Our feud traces back to our childhood.
我们的夙怨可追溯到孩提时代.
辞典例句
After the surrender, an ever - present feud over the horse smoldered between Scarlett and Suellen.
投降以后, 思嘉和苏伦之间一直存在的关于那骑马的急论眼看就要爆发了.
飘（部分）
The feud between Raja Ali and Engku Muda had its repercussions in other Malay states also.
