fin

• n. 鳍；鱼翅；鳍状物
• vt. 切除鳍；装上翅
• vi. 猛挥鳍；潜泳
• n. (Fin)人名；(法)芬

词态变化

中文词源

来自拉丁语pinna,羽毛，翅膀，词源同pen. 该词用来指鱼鳍。

英文词源

fin

fin: [OE] Fin is a word common to the Germanic languages of northeast Europe (German has finne, Dutch vin), but its ultimate source is not clear. The likeliest candidate is Latin pinna ‘feather, wing’ (source of English pin, pinion, and pinnacle), although another suggestion is Latin spīna ‘thorn, spike’.
=> pin, pinion, pinnacle

fin (n.)

Old English finn "fin," from Proto-Germanic *finno (cognates: Middle Low German vinne, Dutch vin), perhaps from Latin pinna "feather, wing" (see pin (n.)); or, less likely, from Latin spina "thorn, spine" (see spine).

U.S. underworld slang sense of "$5 bill" is 1925, from Yiddish finif "five," from German fünf (see five) and thus unrelated. The same word had been used in England in 1868 to mean "five pound note" (earlier finnip, 1839).

双语例句

1. The fin-ancial markets gave a muted response to the Democrats' triumph.

金融市场对民主党的胜利反响不大。

来自柯林斯例句

2. a shark's dorsal fin

鲨鱼的背鳍

来自《权威词典》

3. a fish's ventral fin

鱼的腹鳍

来自《权威词典》

4. The aircraft has a long tail fin.

那架飞机有一个长长的尾翼.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. You owe me a fin.

你欠我美金五元.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》