link: [14] Link goes back ultimately to prehistoric Germanic *khlangkjaz, whose underlying meaning element was ‘bending’ (it also has close relatives in English flank [12], flinch [16], and lank [OE]). ‘Bending’ implies ‘joints’ and ‘links’, and this is the meaning which is the word is presumed to have had when it passed into Old Norse as *hlenkr – from which English acquired link.There is, incidentally, no etymological connection with the now obsolete link ‘torch’ [16], which may have come via medieval Latin linchinus from Greek lúkhnos ‘lamp’, nor with the links on which golf is played, which goes back to Old English hlincas, the plural of hlinc ‘rising ground, ridge’. => flank, flinch, lank
link (n.)
early 15c., "one of a series of rings or loops which form a chain; section of a cord," probably from Old Norse *hlenkr or a similar Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse hlekkr "link," Old Swedish l?nker "chain, link," Norwegian lenke, Danish l?nke), from Proto-Germanic *khlink- (cognates: German lenken "to bend, turn, lead," gelenk "articulation, joint, link," Old English hlencan (plural) "armor"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn." Missing link between man and apes dates to 1880.
link (v.)
"bind, fasten, to couple," late 14c., believed to be from link (n.), though it is attested earlier. Related: Linked; linking.
link (n.2)
"torch," 1520s, of uncertain origin, possibly from Medieval Latin linchinus, from lichinus "wick," from Greek lykhnos "portable light, lamp."
雙語例句
1. He suggested a link between class size and test results of seven-year-olds.
他認為7歲大的學生的測試分數和班級的規模有關系。
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2. Something must have gone wrong with the satellite link.
衛星連接一定出了毛病。
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3. There's a good British Rail link at Clapham Junction.
在克拉珀姆樞紐站有條很不錯的英國鐵路線。
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4. The study also demonstrated a direct link between obesity and mortality.
該研究還表明了肥胖癥和死亡率之間存在直接的聯系。
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5. They have yet to break the link with the trade unions.