sinew
sinew 英 [ˈsɪnju:] 美 [ˈsɪnju]
n. 筋；肌腱；体力；精力 vt. 加强；使牢固
名词复数:sinews
- The tendon that connects muscles to bone is also called sinew. The noun is also used to suggest strength and resilience, and is sometimes used as a literary term for muscle, literal or metaphorical, as in “a nation’s sinew.”
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- n. 筋；肌腱；体力；精力
- vt. 加强；使牢固
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1. He’ll strain every sinew at this World Cup.
在本届杯赛上，他就是要卓越超群。
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2. Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank， which is upon the hollow of the thigh， unto this day： because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
32：32 故此，以色列人不吃大腿窝的筋，直到今日，因为那人摸了雅各大腿窝的筋。
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3. BHP strained every sinew to make its bid attractive to Canada and the province of Saskatchewan, where the target mines its potash.
为了让自己的报价能吸引加拿大和目标公司开采钾盐所在的萨斯喀彻温省，必和必拓可谓竭尽全力。
- sinew (n.) Old English seonowe, oblique form of nominative sionu "sinew," from Proto-Germanic *senawo (source also of Old Saxon sinewa, Old Norse sina, Old Frisian sine, Middle Dutch senuwe, Dutch zenuw, Old High German senawa, German Sehne), from PIE root *sai- "to tie, bind" (source also of Sanskrit snavah "sinew," syati, sinati "to bind;" Avestan snavar, Irish sin "chain;" Hittite ishai-/ishi- "to bind").
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