hunt: [OE] Hunt is an ancient word, probably traceable back to an Indo-European *kend-, which also produced Swedish hinna ‘reach’. Its original Old English descendant was hentan ‘seize’, of which huntian (source of modern English hunt) was a derivative. Etymologically, therefore, hunt means ‘try to seize’. => hand
hunt (v.)
Old English huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize, capture," Old High German hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-.
General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c. 1200. Related: Hunted; hunting. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).
hunt (n.)
early 12c., from hunt (v.). Meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1570s.
实用例句
1. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers.
这对夫妇曾帮着搜寻那些幼童。
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2. Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young.
亲鸟开始为幼鸟寻找食物。
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3. He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.
他动身前往新斯科舍参加为时19天的驼鹿捕猎活动。
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4. Steve Vickers was yellow-carded for a foul on Hunt.
史蒂夫·维克斯因对亨特犯规被出示黄牌。
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5. A leopard hunts alone, and an injured leopard cannot hunt.
