英汉词典

wind 基本解释

• n. 风；呼吸；气味；卷绕
• vt. 缠绕；上发条；使弯曲；吹号角；绕住或缠住某人
• vi. 缠绕；上发条；吹响号角
• n. (Wind)人名；(英、德、瑞典)温德

wind 词态变化

wind 中文词源

来自PIE*we,吹，词源同ventilate,wing.

来自PIE*wendh,弯，转，缠绕，来自PIE*wei的扩大形式，词源同vine,vetch.

wind 英文词源

wind

wind: English has three distinct words wind. The noun, ‘moving air’ [OE], came from a prehistoric Germanic *windaz, which also produced German and Dutch wind and Swedish and Danish vind. This in turn went back to Indo- European *went-, whose other descendants include Latin ventus (source of English vent, ventilate, etc) and Welsh gwynt.

And *wentitself was derived from the base *we- ‘blow’, source also of Greek aétēs ‘wind’ and áēr ‘air’ (from which English gets air), Sanskrit vátas ‘wind’, and Russian vejat’ ‘blow’. The now archaic verb wind ‘blow a horn’ [16], for all that it rhymes with wind ‘wrap round’, was derived from the noun wind. Wind ‘wrap round’ [OE] originally meant ‘go in a particular direction’; ‘wrap’ did not emerge until the 14th century, via an intermediate ‘go in a circle’.

It came from a prehistoric Germanic *windon (source also of German and Dutch winden, Swedish vinda, and Danish vinde), which was formed from a variant of the base which produced English wand, wander, and wend.
=> air, vent, ventilate, weather, winnow; wand, wander, went

wind (n.1)

"air in motion," Old English wind "wind," from Proto-Germanic *windaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch wind, Old Norse vindr, Old High German wind, German Wind, Gothic winds), from PIE *we-nt-o- "blowing," from root *we- "to blow" (cognates: Sanskrit va-, Greek aemi-, Gothic waian, Old English wawan, Old High German wajan, German wehen, Old Church Slavonic vejati "to blow;" Sanskrit vatah, Avestan vata-, Hittite huwantis, Latin ventus, Old Church Slavonic vetru, Lithuanian vejas "wind;" Lithuanian vetra "tempest, storm;" Old Irish feth "air;" Welsh gwynt, Breton gwent "wind").

Normal pronunciation evolution made this word rhyme with kind and rind (Donne rhymes it with mind), but it shifted to a short vowel 18c., probably from influence of windy, where the short vowel is natural. A sad loss for poets, who now must rhyme it only with sinned and a handful of weak words. Symbolic of emptiness and vanity since late 13c.

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind. [Ernest Dowson, 1896]

Meaning "breath" is attested from late Old English; especially "breath in speaking" (early 14c.), so long-winded, also "easy or regular breathing" (early 14c.), hence second wind in the figurative sense (by 1830), an image from the sport of hunting.

Winds "wind instruments of an orchestra" is from 1876. Figurative phrase which way the wind blows for "the current state of affairs" is suggested from c. 1400. To get wind of "receive information about" is by 1809, perhaps inspired by French avoir le vent de. To take the wind out of (one's) sails in the figurative sense (by 1883) is an image from sailing, where a ship without wind can make no progress. Wind-chill index is recorded from 1939. Wind energy from 1976. Wind vane from 1725.

wind (v.1)

"move by turning and twisting," Old English windan "to turn, twist, plait, curl, brandish, swing" (class III strong verb; past tense wand, past participle wunden), from Proto-Germanic *windan "to wind" (cognates: Old Saxon windan, Old Norse vinda, Old Frisian winda, Dutch winden, Old High German wintan, German winden, Gothic windan "to wind"), from PIE *wendh- "to turn, wind, weave" (cognates: Latin viere "twist, plait, weave," vincire "bind;" Lithuanian vyti "twist, wind").

Related to wend, which is its causative form, and to wander. The past tense and past participle merged in Middle English. Meaning "to twine, entwine oneself around" is from 1590s; transitive sense of "turn or twist round and round (on something) is from c. 1300. Meaning "set a watch, clockwork, etc. in operating mode by tightening its spring" is from c. 1600. Wind down "come to a conclusion" is recorded from 1952; wind up "come to a conclusion" is from 1825; earlier in transitive sense "put (affairs) in order in advance of a final settlement" (1780). Winding sheet "shroud of a corpse" is attested from early 15c.

wind (v.2)

"to perceive by scent, get wind of," c. 1400, from wind (n.1). Of horns, etc., "make sound by blowing through," from 1580s. Meaning "tire, put out of breath; render temporarily breathless" is from 1802, originally in pugilism, in reference to the effect of a punch in the stomach. Related: Winded; winding.

wind (n.2)

"an act of winding round," 1825, from wind (v.1) . Earlier, "an apparatus for winding," late 14c., in which use perhaps from a North Sea Germanic word, such as Middle Dutch, Middle Low German winde "windlass."

wind 词组搭配

wind 英文释义

1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure;

"trees bent under the fierce winds"

"when there is no wind, row"

"the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"

2. a tendency or force that influences events;

"the winds of change"

3. breath;

"the collision knocked the wind out of him"

4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

"that's a lot of wind"

"don't give me any of that jazz"

5. an indication of potential opportunity;

"he got a tip on the stock market"

"a good lead for a job"

6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

8. the act of winding or twisting;

"he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"

wind 同义词解析

wind, breeze

这两个名词均有"风"之意。

wind： 普通用词，指空气的流动现象。

breeze： 系微风的总称。

wind 双语例句

1. The wind was bouncing the branches of the big oak trees.

一棵棵高大橡树的枝条随风摇摆。

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2. Wind turbines are large and noisy and they disfigure the landscape.

风力涡轮机个头大、噪音响，还会破坏周边风景。

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3. His long, uncovered hair flew back in the wind.

他那露在外面的长发随风向后飞舞。

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4. The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia.

总统即将结束对索马里的访问。

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5. She unbound her hair and let it flow loose in the wind.

她把头发解开，让它随风飘动。

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wind 实用场景例句

strong/high winds

强劲的风；大风

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gale-force winds

大风级的风

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a light wind

小风

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a north/south/east/west wind

北 / 南 / 东 / 西风

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a chill/cold/biting wind from the north

冷飕飕的 / 寒冷的 / 刺骨的北风

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The wind is blowing from the south.

刮的是南风。

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The trees were swaying in the wind .

树在风中摇晃。

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A gust of wind blew my hat off.

一阵风把我的帽子刮掉了。

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The weather was hot, without a breath of wind .

天气炎热，连一丝风都没有。

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The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind .

这堵墙挡着常刮的风，起到一些保护作用。

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The wind is getting up (= starting to blow strongly) .

风势越来越大。

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The wind has dropped (= stopped blowing strongly) .

风势已经减弱。

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wind speed/direction

风速；风向

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There was a strong wind blowing...

狂风肆虐。

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Then the wind dropped and the surface of the sea was still...

后来风势渐弱，海面重归平静。

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The winds of change are blowing across the country...

改革之风吹遍全国。

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The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.

全世界的航空航天工业都感受到了经济衰退的寒意。

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He was winded and shaken...

他呼吸困难，身体发抖。

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The cow stamped on his side, winding him.

牛重重地踩在他的肋部，使他喘不上气来。

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If he cries when you put him down after a feed, try winding him.

如果你喂完后把他放下时他哭，给他拍拍嗝儿。

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I don't want the public, and especially not the press, to get wind of it at this stage.

我不想让公众，尤其是新闻界，在这个阶段听到什么风声。

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By the mid-1980s, change was in the wind again.

20世纪80年代中期，变革又呈山雨欲来之势。

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'I heard you had some funny phone calls.' — 'Yeah, that's why yours rather put the wind up me.'

“我听说你接到了一些骚扰电话。”——“没错儿，所以你的电话把我吓坏了。”

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Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.

马克斯警告她说她这是在玩火，有被起诉的危险。

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He didn't like to make pronouncements before he was sure which way the wind was blowing.

在没有弄清事态的走向前，他不想发表声明。

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The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside...

摩泽尔河在宁静的乡间蜿蜒穿行约160英里。

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The road winds uphill...

道路沿山坡蜿蜒而上。

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The horse jumped forwards and round her, winding the rope round her waist.

那匹马围着她向前跳，把绳子绕在了她腰上。

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I still hadn't wound my watch so I didn't know the time.

我还没有给表上发条，所以不知道时间。

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The camcorder winds the tape back or forward at high speed.

这款便携式摄像机可以使录像带快速倒回或前进。

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