frank
frank 英 [fræŋk] 美 [fræŋk]
adj. 坦白的，直率的；老实的 n. 免费邮寄特权 vt. 免费邮寄
进行时:franking 过去式:franked 过去分词:franked 第三人称单数:franks 名词复数:franks 比较级:franker 最高级:frankest
- To be frank is to be honest. Also, it's a hot dog. Eating a frank at the ballpark is, to be frank, an all-American experience.
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- adj. 坦白的，直率的；老实的
- n. 免费邮寄特权
- vt. 免费邮寄
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1. frank: Over there.
弗兰克：在那边。
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2. Since that day, hunting and frank have been in my life.
从那天开始，弗兰克和狩猎进入了我的生活。
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3. frank clocks one of the drug dealers in the nose with his gun.
弗兰克用他的枪大力击打了其中一位毒品卖家的鼻子。
- Frank (n.) one of the Germanic tribal people (Salian Franks) situated on the lower Rhine from 3c. that conquered Romano-Celtic northern Gaul c.500 C.E.; from their territory and partly from their language grew modern France and French. Old English franc, franca "freeman, noble; Frank, Frenchman," from Medieval Latin francus, a Late Latin borrowing of Frankish *Frank, the people's self-designation (cognate with Old High German Franko, the Latin word also is the source of Spanish and Italian names Franco).
- frank (adj.) c. 1300, "free, liberal, generous;" 1540s, "outspoken," from Old French franc "free (not servile); without hindrance, exempt from; sincere, genuine, open, gracious, generous; worthy, noble, illustrious" (12c.), from Medieval Latin francus "free, at liberty, exempt from service," as a noun, "a freeman, a Frank" (see Frank).
- frank (n.) short for frankfurter, by 1916, American English. Franks and beans attested by 1953.
- frank (v.) "to free a letter for carriage or an article for publication, to send by public conveyance free of expense," 1708, from shortened form of French affranchir, from a- "to" + franchir "to free" (see franchise (v.)). A British parliamentary privilege from 1660-1840; in U.S. Congress, technically abolished 1873. Related: Franked; franking. As a noun, "signature of one entitled to send letters for free," from 1713.
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