單詞
quell
英 [kwel]
美[kw?l]
基本信息
- vt. 平息；鎮壓；減輕；消除
- n. (Quell)人名；(捷)奎爾；(西)克利
CET6+TEM8GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?quells;過去式:?quelled;過去分詞:?quelled;現在分詞:?quelling;
助記提示
1. kill => quell.
中文詞源
quell 制止，阻止
來自古英語cwellan,殺死，謀殺，執行死刑，來自PIE*gwele,扔，投擲，詞源同ballistic,kill. 詞義由扔，投擲引申為刺，殺。后引申詞義制止，阻止。
英文詞源
- quell
- quell: [OE] Quell and kill are probably closely related – indeed, in Old and Middle English quell was used for ‘kill’ (‘birds and small beasts with his bow he quells’, William of Palerne 1350). Quell goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *kwaljan (source also of German qu?len ‘torture’), which may have had a variant *kuljan, that could have produced English kill. The milder modern sense of quell developed in the 14th century.
- quell (v.)
- Old English cwellan "to kill, murder, execute," from Proto-Germanic *kwaljanan (cognates: Old English cwelan "to die," cwalu "violent death;" Old Saxon quellian "to torture, kill;" Old Norse kvelja "to torment;" Middle Dutch quelen "to vex, tease, torment;" Old High German quellan "to suffer pain," German qu?len "to torment, torture"), from PIE root *gwele- (1) "to throw, reach," with extended sense of "to pierce" (cognates: Armenian kelem "I torture;" Old Church Slavonic zali "pain;" Lithuanian galas "end," gela "agony," gelti "to sting;" see ballistics). Milder sense of "suppress, extinguish" developed by c. 1300. Related: Quelled; quelling.
雙語例句
- 1. He is unlikely to send in the army to quell nationalist aspirations.
- 他不可能派兵去扼殺民族主義理想。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Extra police were called in to quell the disturbances.
- 已調集了增援警力來平定騷亂。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. Soldiers were sent in to quell the riots.
- 士兵們被派去平息騷亂.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Troops were called in to quell the violence.
- 部隊被調來平息暴力事件.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Aspirin will quell your headache.
- 阿斯匹林將止住你的頭疼.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》