thrust: [12] Thrust was borrowed from Old Norse thrysta ‘thrust, compress’. It probably goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *trud- ‘push, press’, whose other descendants include Latin trūdere ‘thrust’ (source of English abstruse, intrude, etc) and probably also English threat.
thrust (v.)
late 12c., from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse trysta "to thrust, force, press," from Proto-Germanic *thrustijanan, perhaps from PIE *treud- "push, press" (see threat), but OED finds this derivation doubtful. Related: Thrusting.
thrust (n.)
1510s, "act of pressing," from thrust (v.). Meaning "act of thrusting" (in the modern sense) is from 1580s. Meaning "propulsive force" is from 1708. Figurative sense of "principal theme, aim, point, purpose" is recorded from 1968.
雙語例句
1. He reached the garden gate and thrust his way through it.
他來到花園門口，擠了進(jìn)去。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Tony has now been thrust into the limelight, with a high-profile job.