deed

英 [di?d] 美[did]

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復數:?deeds;

deed--------"地的"----地契

deed 行為，契約

來自PIE*dhe, 做，樹立，放置，詞源同do, fact. 用于指行為，契約。

deed: deed: [OE] Etymologically, a deed is ‘that which is done’. An ancient word, it can be traced back as far as a hypothetical *dhētis, a noun derived from *dhē-, *dhō- ‘place, put’, the Indo- European base from which do comes. This passed into Germanic as *d?diz, which produced German tat, Dutch daad, and Swedish d?ad as well as English deed. The word’s application to a legal document is a 14th-century development.
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deed (n.): Old English d?d "a doing, act, action, transaction, event," from Proto-Germanic *d?dis (cognates: Old Saxon dad, Old Norse dae, Old Frisian dede, Middle Dutch daet, Dutch daad, Old High German tat, German Tat "deed," Gothic gadets "a putting, placing"), from PIE *dhetis (cognates: Lithuanian detis "load, burden," Greek thesis "a placing, setting"), from *dhe- "place, put" (see do). Sense of "written legal document" is early 14c. As a verb, 1806, American English Related: Deeded; deeding.

1. The perpetrators of this evil deed must be brought to justice.: 必須將參與這一惡行的兇手繩之以法。

2. Smith changed his name by deed poll to Jervis-Smith.: 史密斯通過單邊契據將自己的名字更改為杰維斯&dash1;史密斯。

3. A man's deed is the touchstone of his greatness or littleness.: 行動是一個人偉大或者渺小的試金石.