anvil: [OE] Etymologically, an anvil is ‘something on which you hit something else’. The Old English word was anfīlte, which came from a prehistoric West Germanic compound formed from *ana ‘on’ and a verbal component meaning ‘hit’ (which was also the source of English felt, Latin pellere ‘hit’, and Swedish dialect filta ‘hit’). It is possible that the word may originally have been a loan-translation based on the Latin for ‘a(chǎn)nvil’, incūs; for this too was a compound, based on in ‘in’ and the stem of the verb cūdere ‘hit’ (related to English hew). => appeal
anvil (n.)
Old English anfilt, a Proto-Germanic compound (cognates: Middle Dutch anvilt, Old High German anafalz, Dutch aanbeeld, Danish ambolt "anvil") from *ana- "on" + *filtan "hit" (see felt (n.)). The ear bone so called from 1680s. Anvil Chorus is based on the "Gypsy Song" that opens Act II of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," first performed in Teatro Apollo, Rome, Jan. 19, 1853.
雙語例句
1. His independence had been forged on the anvil of a harsh environment.
他的獨立性是在艱苦的環(huán)境中錘煉出來的。
來自柯林斯例句
2. A good anvil does not fear the hammer.
真金不怕火煉,好漢不怕考驗.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. The blacksmith shaped a horseshoe on his anvil.
鐵匠在他的鐵砧上打出一個馬蹄形.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The scheme is still on the anvil.
這計劃尚在籌劃中.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
5. The anvil onto which the staples are pressed was not assemble correctly.