foe
英 [fəʊ]
美 [fo]
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foe：否。你说什么他都否定----个人的仇敌，敌人，反对者。
foe 敌人来自PIE*peig, 敌对的，敌视的，词源同feud, fiend.
- foe
- foe: [OE] Foe is the modern descendant of the Old English noun gefā ‘enemy’, a derivative of Germanic *faikh-. This also produced the Old English adjective fāh ‘hostile’, and was the ultimate source of modern English feud.
=> feud - foe (n.)
- Old English gefea, gefa "foe, enemy, adversary in a blood feud" (the prefix denotes "mutuality"), from adjective fah "at feud, hostile," also "guilty, criminal," from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cognates: Old High German fehan "to hate," Gothic faih "deception"), probably from PIE root *peig- (2) "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (cognates: Sanskrit pisunah "malicious," picacah "demon;" Greek pikros "bitter;" Latin piget "it irks, troubles, displeases," piger "reluctant, lazy;" Lithuanian piktas "wicked, angry," pekti "to blame"). Weaker sense of "adversary" is first recorded c. 1600.
- 1. He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.
- 他明白卡尔可能会成为他的死敌.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe.
- 宜将剩勇追穷寇.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 3. The stag at bay is a dangerous foe.
- 穷寇勿追.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 4. Shakur loses his fragile grip on reality and starts blasting away at friends and foe alike.
- 沙库尔丧失了对形势仅存的一点判断，无论对敌对友都开始大加挞伐。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. A friend is a friend ; a foe is a foe; one must be clearly distinguished from the other.
- 敌是敌,友是 友, 必须分清界限.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
