ambush: [14] Originally, ambush meant literally ‘put in a bush’ – or more precisely ‘hide in a wood, from where one can make a surprise attack’. The hypothetical Vulgar Latin verb *imboscāre was formed from the prefix in- and the noun *boscus ‘bush, thicket’ (a word of Germanic origin, related to English bush). In Old French this became embuschier, and when English acquired it its prefix gradually became transformed into am-.
In the 16th century, various related forms were borrowed into English – Spanish produced ambuscado, Italian was responsible for imboscata, and French embuscade was anglicized was ambuscade – but none now survives other than as an archaism. => bush
ambush (v.)
c. 1300, from Old French embuscher (13c., Modern French emb?cher) "to lay an ambush," from en- "in" + busch "wood," apparently from Frankish *busk "bush, woods" (see bush (n.)). Related: Ambushed; ambushing.
ambush (n.)
late 15c., embushe, from the English verb or from Middle French embusche, from Old French embuscher (see ambush (v.)). Earlier was ambushment (late 14c.). Figurative use by 1590s.
雙語例句
1. A policeman has been shot dead in an ambush.
一名警察在一次伏擊中中彈身亡。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The gunmen, lying in ambush, opened fire, killing the driver.
埋伏的槍手開槍打死了司機(jī)。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Two soldiers were killed in a terrorist ambush.
兩名士兵遭到恐怖分子伏擊而死亡。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. The enemy chased the decoys down to the place of ambush.
敵人將誘騙者一直追到伏兵所在地.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.