haggard

英 ['h?g?d] 美['h?ɡ?d]

TEM8GRE擴展詞匯

1. hag => haggard.
2. 諧音“骸骨的”----瘦的只剩下骸骨了－消瘦的
3. hedge => haggard. 表示未馴服的野鷹停棲用的樹籬。由此表示從野外捉回來的野鷹。其實 hedge 在這里的含義為引申義“ catch, seize”。

haggard 疲憊的，憔悴的

詞源不確定，可能來自古法語faulcon hagard,野鷹，被抓獲的獵鷹，來自古英語haga,樹籬，籬笆，圍欄，詞源同haw,hedge.因野鷹的天性狂野，桀驁不馴，被抓獲后常絕食而亡，因此引申詞義消瘦的，后用為形容人憔悴的。或來自hag,老巫婆。

haggard: haggard: [16] Haggard was originally a falconer’s term for a hawk as yet untamed. It has been suggested that its ultimate source was Germanic *khag-, which also produced English hedge, the implication being that a haggard was a hawk that sat in a hedge rather than on the falconer’s arm. The modern meaning ‘gaunt’ developed in the 17th century, probably by association with hag ‘ugly old woman’ [13] (perhaps a shortening of Old English h?gtesse ‘witch’, a word of unknown origin related to German hexe ‘witch’).
=> hedge
haggard (adj.): 1560s, "wild, unruly" (originally in reference to hawks), from Middle French haggard, probably from Old French faulcon hagard "wild falcon," literally "falcon of the woods," from hagard, hagart, from Middle High German hag "hedge, copse, wood," from Proto-Germanic *hagon, from PIE root *kagh- "to catch, seize;" also "wickerwork, fence" (see hedge (n.)). OED, however, finds this derivation "very doubtful." Sense perhaps reinforced by Low German hager "gaunt, haggard." Sense of "with a haunted and wild expression" first recorded 1690s; that of "careworn" first recorded 1853. Sense influenced by association with hag. Related: Haggardly; haggardness.

1. Nick glanced around at the haggard faces watching him.: 尼克環視著盯著自己的那一張張憔悴的面孔。

5. Her whole face had changed in that instant, becoming almost haggard.: 她的臉上登時變了色, 簡直變得消瘦了.