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英 [w??k] 美[w?k]

n. 步行，走；散步
vt. 散步；走過
vi. 走，步行；散步
n. (Walk)人名；(德、葡)瓦爾克；(英)沃克

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復數:?walks;第三人稱單數:?walks;過去式:?walked;過去分詞:?walked;現在分詞:?walking;

中文詞源

walk 步行

來自PIE*wel,轉，搖擺，詞源同Volvo,voluble。引申詞義步行，蛇行，-k,加強語音。

英文詞源

walk: walk: [OE] Walk originally meant ‘roll about, toss’ (an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon glossary translated Latin ferventis oceani as ‘walking sea’). This gradually broadened out via ‘move about’ to ‘go on a journey’, but the specific application to ‘travelling on foot’ did not emerge until the 13th century. The verb came from a prehistoric Germanic *walkan, which also produced Dutch walken ‘make felt by beating’ and French gauchir ‘turn aside, detour’ (source of English gauche [18]). It is ultimately related to Sanskrit valgati ‘hops’.
=> gauche
walk (v.): "travel on foot," c. 1200, a merger of two verbs, 1. Old English wealcan "to toss, roll, move round" (past tense weolc, past participle wealcen), and 2. wealcian "to roll up, curl," from Proto-Germanic *welk- (cognates: Old Norse valka "to drag about," Danish valke "to full" (cloth), Middle Dutch walken "to knead, press, full" (cloth), Old High German walchan "to knead," German walken "to full"), perhaps ultimately from PIE root *wel- (3) "to turn, roll" (see volvox).

The shift in sense is perhaps from a colloquial use of the Old English word or via the sense of "to full cloth" (by treading on it), though this sense does not appear until after the change in meaning. In 13c. it is used of snakes and the passage of time, and in 15c. of wheeled carts. "Rarely is there so specific a word as NE walk, clearly distinguished from both go and run" [Buck]. Meaning "to go away" is recorded from mid-15c. Transitive meaning "to exercise a dog (or horse)" is from late 15c.; meaning "to escort (someone) in a walk" is from 1620s. Meaning "move (a heavy object) by turning and shoving it in a manner suggesting walking" is by 1890. To walk it off, of an injury, etc., is from 1741. Related: Walked; walking.
walk (n.): c. 1200, "a tossing, rolling;" mid-13c., "an act of walking, a going on foot;" late 14c., "a stroll," also "a path, a walkway;" from walk (v.). The meaning "broad path in a garden" is from 1530s. Meaning "particular manner of walking" is from 1650s. Meaning "manner of action, way of living" is from 1580s; hence walk of life (1733). Meaning "range or sphere of activity" is from 1759. Sports sense of "base on balls" is recorded from 1905; to win in a walk (1854) is from horse racing (see walk-over). As a type of sponsored group trek as a fund-raising event, by 1971 (walk-a-thon is from 1963).

雙語例句

1. Do not wait for good things to happen to you. You need to walk towards happiness.: 不要等待好事降臨，你要向幸福進發。

2. She went for a brisk walk to work off her frustration.: 她快步走了一會兒，以排解心中的沮喪。

3. A stiff knee following surgery forced her to walk with a limp.: 手術后她的膝蓋活動不便，走路時被迫跛行。

4. "Can you walk all right?" the nurse asked him.: “你走路有困難嗎？”護士問他。

5. She noticed her own proud walk had become a shuffle.: 她意識到自己趾高氣揚的步伐已變成了拖著腳走路了。

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