• vi. 寫，寫字；寫作，作曲；寫信
• vt. 寫，書寫；寫信給；著述

來自Proto-Germanic*writan,撕，刮，引申詞義寫，劃，比較scribe,carve.可能進一步來自PIE*wer,彎，轉，引申詞義刻，劃，刮，比較PIE*sker,砍，劈，刻，寫，彎，轉，詞源同scar,shear,scribe,carve,ring,curve.

write

write: [OE] The etymological notion underlying write is of ‘cutting’ or ‘scratching’ (it is related to German reissen ‘tear’). The earliest form of writing involved cutting marks on stone, wood, etc, and the same word was carried over when the technology of writing moved on to pen and ink. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wrītan, but its ultimate origins are not known. The noun writ [OE] goes back to the same Germanic base.
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write (v.)

Old English writan "to score, outline, draw the figure of," later "to set down in writing" (class I strong verb; past tense wrat, past participle writen), from Proto-Germanic *writan "tear, scratch" (cognates: Old Frisian writa "to write," Old Saxon writan "to tear, scratch, write," Old Norse rita "write, scratch, outline," Old High German rizan "to write, scratch, tear," German rei?en "to tear, pull, tug, sketch, draw, design"), outside connections doubtful.

For men use to write an evill turne in marble stone, but a good turne in the dust. [More, 1513]

Words for "write" in most Indo-European languages originally mean "carve, scratch, cut" (such as Latin scribere, Greek graphein, glyphein, Sanskrit rikh-); a few originally meant "paint" (Gothic meljan, Old Church Slavonic pisati, and most of the modern Slavic cognates). To write (something) off (1680s) originally was from accounting; figurative sense is recorded from 1889. Write-in "unlisted candidate" is recorded from 1932.

1. Today was really a bit of a write-off for me.

今天對我來說真的有點兒白白浪費了。

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2. I'm going to write him in on my ballot next year.

明年我要在我的選票上寫上他的名字。

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3. The car was a write-off, but everyone escaped unharmed.

這輛車報廢了，但人員全部安全逃離。

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4. Finding a volunteer to write the computer program isn't a problem.

找個志愿者編這個計算機程序不成問題。

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5. That time with him is my qualification to write this book.

我和他曾經(jīng)相處過一段時間，所以才能寫出這本書。

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