spear
spear 英 [spɪə(r)] 美 [spɪr]
n. 矛，枪 vt. 用矛刺
进行时:spearing 过去式:speared 过去分词:speared 第三人称单数:spears 名词复数:spears
- A spear consists of a long shaft that has a sharp point at one end. You might use one to go spear fishing, but that's about it. Spears are no longer the weapon of choice.
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- n. 矛，枪
- vt. 用矛刺
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1. They were standing in the river spearing fish.
他们站在河里叉鱼。
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2. She speared an olive with her fork.
她用叉子叉了一个橄榄。
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3. I forgot about my powerful spear!
我把我自己厉害的矛给忘了。
- spear (n.1) "weapon with a penetrating head and a long wooden shaft, meant to be thrust or thrown," Old English spere "spear, javelin, lance," from Proto-Germanic *speri (source also of Old Norse spjör, Old Saxon, Old Frisian sper, Dutch speer, Old High German sper, German Speer "spear"), from PIE root *sper- (1) "spear, pole" (source also of Old Norse sparri "spar, rafter," and perhaps also Latin sparus "hunting spear").
- spear (n.2) "sprout of a plant," 1640s, earlier "church spire" (c. 1500); variant of spire (n.).
- spear (v.) 1755, from spear (n.1). Related: Speared; spearing.
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