havoc
英['h?v?k]
美['h?v?k]
- n. 大破壞；浩劫；蹂躪
- vt. 嚴重破壞
- vi. 損毀
- n. (Havoc)人名；(英)哈沃克
中文詞源
havoc 災害，禍患
來自諾曼法語crier havok,即cry havoc,準許士兵搶劫的信號，詞源不詳，可能來自拉丁語habere,抓，占有，詞源同habit,give(古義為擁有).
英文詞源
- havoc
- havoc: [15] The ancestry of havoc is a mystery, but it seems originally to have been an exclamation, probably Germanic, used as a signal to begin plundering. This was adopted into Old French as havot, which was used in the phrase crier havot ‘shout ‘havot’,’ hence ‘let loose destruction and plunder’. Havot became altered in Anglo-Norman to havok, the form in which English adopted it; and in due course cry havoc gave rise to the independent use of havoc as ‘destruction, devastation’.
- havoc (n.)
- early 15c., from the expression cry havoc "give the signal to pillage" (Anglo-French crier havok, late 14c.). Havok, the signal to soldiers to seize plunder, is from Old French havot "pillaging, looting" (in crier havot), which is related to haver "to seize, grasp," hef "hook," probably from a Germanic source (see hawk (n.)), or from Latin habere "to have, possess." General sense of "devastation" first recorded late 15c.
雙語例句
- 1. The sudden onset of winter caused havoc with rail and air transport.
- 冬天的突然降臨讓鐵路和航空運輸系統陷入混亂。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The weather played havoc with airline schedules.
- 天氣打亂了航空公司的航班安排。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Stress can wreak havoc on the immune system.
- 壓力可能會破壞免疫系統。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Drug addiction soon played havoc with his career.
- 毒癮很快就毀掉了他的事業。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The floods caused havoc throughout the area.
- 洪水給整個地區帶來了災害。
來自《權威詞典》