hawk
hawk 英 [hɔ:k] 美 [hɔk]
n. 鹰
进行时:hawking 过去式:hawked 过去分词:hawked 第三人称单数:hawks 名词复数:hawks
- A hawk is a relatively large bird that hunts small animals. Hawks tend to surprise their prey, swooping down on it from above.
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- n. 鹰
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1. He waited, watching her like a hawk .
他等待着，用鹰一样锐利的目光紧盯着她。
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2. A hawk hovered over the hill.
一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
- hawk (n.) c. 1300, hauk, earlier havek (c. 1200), from Old English hafoc (West Saxon), heafuc (Mercian), heafoc, "hawk," from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (source also of Old Norse haukr, Old Saxon habuc, Middle Dutch havik, Old High German habuh, German Habicht "hawk"), from PIE root *kap- "to grasp" (source also of Russian kobec "a kind of falcon"). Transferred sense of "militarist" attested from 1956, probably based on its opposite, dove.
- hawk (v.1) "to sell in the open, peddle," late 15c., back-formation from hawker "itinerant vendor" (c. 1400), agent noun from Middle Low German höken "to peddle, carry on the back, squat," from Proto-Germanic *huk-. Related: Hawked; hawking. Despite the etymological connection with stooping under a burden on one's back, a hawker is technically distinguished from a peddler by use of a horse and cart or a van.
- hawk (v.2) "to hunt with a hawk," mid-14c., from hawk (n.).
- hawk (v.3) "to clear one's throat," 1580s, imitative.
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