attach: [14] When English first acquired it, attach meant ‘seize’ or ‘a(chǎn)rrest’. It is Germanic in origin, but reached us via Old French atachier. This was an alteration of earlier Old French estachier ‘fasten (with a stake)’, which was based on a hypothetical Germanic *stakōn. The metaphorical meaning ‘a(chǎn)rrest’ appears to have arisen in Anglo-Norman, the route by which the word reached English from Old French; the original, literal sense ‘fasten, join’ did not arrive in English until as late as the 18th century, as a reborrowing from modern French attacher.
A similar borrowing of Germanic *stakōn into Italian produced the ancestor of English attack. => attack, stake
attach (v.)
mid-14c. (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), "to take or seize (property or goods) by law," a legal term, from Old French atachier (11c.), earlier estachier "to attach, fix; stake up, support" (Modern French attacher, also compare Italian attaccare), perhaps from a- "to" + Frankish *stakon "a post, stake" or a similar Germanic word (see stake (n.)). Meaning "to fasten, affix, connect" is from c. 1400. Related: Attached; attaching.
雙語例句
1. Magistrates will be able to attach conditions when juveniles are remanded.
地方法官將可以在少年犯送押時提出附加條件。
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2. Ink particles attach themselves to air bubbles and rise to the surface.
墨汁顆粒附著在氣泡上，浮到表面上。
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3. He said they would attach conditions to the handover of the base.
他說他們將對基地的移交附加一些條件。
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4. It is possible to attach executable program files to e-mail.