blank
英 [blæŋk]
美 [blæŋk]
- adj. 空白的；空虚的；单调的
- n. 空白；空虚；空白表格
- vt. 使…无效；使…模糊；封锁
- vi. 消失；成为空白
- n. (Blank)人名；(法)布朗克；(英、德、西、俄、罗、捷、瑞典、芬)布兰克
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中文词源
blank 空白的
来自PIE * bhel, 燃烧，发光。此处指发白光，白色。
英语词源
- blank
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blank: [15] Although English got blank from French blanc ‘white’, its ultimate source is Germanic. Forms such as Old High German blanc ‘white’ suggest a prehistoric Germanic *blangkaz, which could have been borrowed into Romanic, the undifferentiated precursor of the Romance languages, as *blancus – hence French blanc, Italian bianco, Spanish blanco, and Portuguese branco.
The word originally meant simply ‘white’ in English, but this sense had all but died out by the early 18th century, by which time the present-day ‘unmarked’ was well established. Other derivatives of French blanc include the verb blanch [14], from French blanchier, and blanket [13], from Old French blancquet. Blanco is a trade name (based on blanc) coined in the 1890s for a whitening preparation for military webbing (subsequently applied to the khakicoloured version as well).
=> blanch, blanket - blank (adj.)
- early 13c., "white, pale, colorless," from Old French blanc "white, shining," from Frankish *blank "white, gleaming," or some other West Germanic source (compare Old Norse blakkr, Old English blanca "white horse;" Old High German blanc, blanch; German blank "shining, bright"), from Proto-Germanic *blangkaz "to shine, dazzle," extended form of PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)).
Meaning "having empty spaces" evolved c. 1400. Sense of "void of expression" (a blank look) is from 1550s. Spanish blanco, Italian bianco are said to be from Germanic. Related: Blankly, blankness. - blank (n.)
- late 14c. as the name of a small French coin; 1550s as "white space in the center of a target," from the same source as blank (adj.). Meaning "empty space" (in a document, etc.) is from c. 1570. Meaning "losing lottery ticket" (1560s) is behind the expression draw a blank. The word has been "for decorum's sake, substituted for a word of execration" [OED] from 1854. From 1896 as short for blank cartridge (itself from 1826).
- blank (v.)
- 1540s, "to nonplus, disconcert, shut up;" 1560s, "to frustrate," from blank (adj.). Sports sense of "defeat (another team) without allowing a score" is from 1870. Meaning "to become blank or empty" is from 1955. Related: Blanked; blanking.
权威例句
- 1. They shot him at point blank range with an automatic rifle.
- 他们用自动步枪近距离开枪射杀了他。
- 2. Write your letter and seal it in a blank envelope.
- 信写好后把它装进空白信封里封好。
- 3. They drew a blank in their search for the driver.
- 他们四处寻找那个司机，但一无所获。
- 4. When they found us guilty, I just went blank.
- 当他们判定我们有罪时，我的脑子顿时一片空白。
- 5. I was trying to blank out previous situations from my mind.
- 我试图将先前的境遇从大脑中抹去。
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