grit的意思

grit

英式音标[ɡrɪt]
美式英标[grɪt]

基本解释

vt. 研磨；在…上铺砂砾，覆以砂砾；咬紧牙关

vi. 摩擦作声

n. 粗砂，砂砾砂砾，粗砂石；勇气；决心

n. (Grit)人名；(德)格里特；(法)格里

中文词源

grit 沙粒，盐粒

来自PIE*ghrei, 刮，擦，磨，词源同gravel, grind. 指沙粒，盐粒。

英文词源

grit: grit: [OE] Etymologically, grit is ‘something produced by pounding’. Prehistoric Indo- European *ghrēu- denoted ‘rub, pound, crush’, and from it came Germanic *greutam ‘tiny particles of crushed or pounded rock’, hence ‘sand, gravel’. Its modern descendants include English grit and German griess ‘gravel, grit, coarse sand’, and it was also used in the formation of the Old English word for ‘pearl’, meregrot, literally ‘sea-pebble’, an alteration of Latin margarīta ‘pearl’. Groats ‘husked grain’ [OE] comes from the same source.

The sense ‘determination, resolve’ originated in the USA in the early 19th century, presumably as a metaphorical extension of grit meaning ‘hard sandstone’ (as in millstone grit).
=> groats
grit (n.): Old English greot "sand, dust, earth, gravel," from Proto-Germanic *greutan "tiny particles of crushed rock" (cognates: Old Saxon griot, Old Frisian gret, Old Norse grjot "rock, stone," German Grieß "grit, sand"), from PIE *ghreu- "rub, grind" (cognates: Lithuanian grudas "corn, kernel," Old Church Slavonic gruda "clod"). Sense of "pluck, spirit, firmness of mind" first recorded American English, 1808.
If he hadn't a had the clear grit in him, and showed teeth and claws, they'd a nullified him so, you wouldn't have see'd a grease spot of him no more. [Thomas Chandler Haliburton, "Sam Slick in England," 1843]
grit (v.): "make a grating sound," 1762, probably from grit (n.). Meaning "to grate, grind" is from 1797. Related: Gritted; gritting.

实用例句

1. You'll never quite get rid of every last bit of grit.: 无法把所有的沙砾都清除干净。

2. I pretended to rub a fleck of grit from one eye.: 我假装拭去一只眼睛里的沙粒。

3. He felt tiny bits of grit and sand peppering his knees.: 他感到细小的沙砾不断打在膝盖上。

4. You've got to admire her grit.: 你不得不佩服她的勇气。

5. Grit from the highway made him cough.: 公路上扬起的沙子呛得他咳嗽起来。

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