gird
gird 英 [gɜ:d] 美 [gɜrd]
vt. 束缚；佩带；做准备 vi. 准备；嘲骂 n. 嘲笑
进行时:girding 过去式:girded 过去分词:girded 第三人称单数:girds
- "Gird your loins and prepare for battle!" Okay, no one says "gird your loins" anymore (which basically means "tighten your pants"), but gird is still used as a verb to mean "get ready for a dangerous situation."
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- vt. 束缚；佩带；做准备
- vi. 准备；嘲骂
- n. 嘲笑
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1. All this comes as Democrats gird to defend their majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate in elections next November.
民主党已经在为明年11月的国会选举做准备。
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2. And as the well-proportioned gird themselves for the hassles of holiday travel, plus-size travelers like me prepare for a plus-sized ordeal.
正如这些胖人旅行者的在假日旅行中要碰到的诸多阻碍一样，加大的身板儿往往意味着加重的舟车之苦。
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3. For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
因此，你们当腰束麻布，大声哀号，因为耶和华的烈怒没有向我们转消。
- gird (v.) Old English gyrdan "put a belt or girdle around; encircle; bind with flexible material; invest with attributes," from Proto-Germanic *gurdjan (source also of Old Norse gyrða, Old Saxon gurdian, Old Frisian gerda, Dutch gorden, Old High German gurtan, German gürten), from PIE *ghr-dh-, suffixed form of root *gher- (1) "to grasp, enclose." Related: Girded; girding.
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