• n. 匕首，短劍
• vt. 用劍刺
• n. (Dagger)人名；(俄)達格爾

可能來自拉丁語*daca, 地名Dacian，原羅馬帝國行省。因產自Dacian而得名。

dagger

dagger: [14] Dagger has an uncertain history. There was a verb dag in Middle English, meaning ‘stab’, which suggests that dagger may simply be ‘something that stabs’, but similarity of form and sense indicates a connection too with Old French dague ‘dagger’. This appears to have come via Old Proven?al or Old Italian daga from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *daca, which meant literally ‘Dacian knife’ (from Latin Dācus ‘Dacian’). Dacia was the ancient name for an area roughly corresponding to modern Romania.

dagger (n.)

late 14c., apparently from Old French dague "dagger," from Old Proven?al dague or Italian daga, which is of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca "Dacian knife," from the Roman province in modern Romania. The ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix. Attested earlier (1279) as a surname (Dagard, presumably "one who carried a dagger"). Also compare dogwood. Middle Dutch dagge, Danish daggert, German Degen also are from French.

1. He drew his dagger and turned to face his pursuers.

他拔出匕首轉身面向追他的人。

來自柯林斯例句

2. She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.

在昨天的一次秘密行動中她從監獄獲釋。

來自柯林斯例句

3. This sound, like all music, pierced my heart like a dagger.

這種聲音像所有的音樂一樣，如短劍般直刺我心。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The dagger stuck tightly in the silver scabbard.

匕首牢牢地卡在銀質刀鞘中。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The bad news is a dagger to his heart.

這條壞消息刺痛了他的心.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》