dagger

英 ['dægə] 美 ['dæɡɚ]

1. 谐音“带钩儿”-----带钩儿的匕首。有古诗为证：男儿何不带吴钩，收取关山五十州。

dagger 匕首

可能来自拉丁语*daca, 地名Dacian，原罗马帝国行省。因产自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 Provençal 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 Provençal 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.

2. She was released from prison in a cloak and dagger operation yesterday.: 在昨天的一次秘密行动中她从监狱获释。

3. This sound, like all music, pierced my heart like a dagger.: 这种声音像所有的音乐一样，如短剑般直刺我心。