blindfold: [16] The original term for covering someone’s eyes with a bandage was blindfell [OE], which survived until the 16th century. This meant literally ‘strike someone blind’, the second element being the fell of ‘felling trees’. It appears that its past form, blindfelled, came to be mistaken for a present form, and this, together with some perceived connection with fold (presumably the ‘folding’ of the bandage round somebody’s head), conspired to produce the new verb blindfold.
blindfold (v.)
1520s, alteration, by similarity to fold, of blindfelled (early 14c.), past participle of blindfellan "blindfold, cover the eyes (with a bandage, etc.)," also "to strike blind" (c. 1200), from Old English (ge)blindfellian "to strike blind," from blind (adj.) + Anglian gefeollan "to strike down," as in to fell a tree (see fell (v.)). Related: Blindfolded; blindfolding.
blindfold (n.)
1880, from blindfold (v.).
雙語例句
1. The prisoner wore a blindfold when he was executed.
行刑時犯人戴著眼罩.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. The Australian chess grandmaster Ian Rogers took on six opponents blindfold and beat five.
澳大利亞國際象棋頂級大師伊恩·羅杰斯和6位對手下盲棋，戰(zhàn)勝了5位。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He read the letter again although already he could have recited its contents blindfold.
盡管對信的內(nèi)容已經(jīng)能夠倒背如流了，他還是又看了一遍。
來自柯林斯例句
4. I could do that blindfold , ie easily , regardless of obstacles.