body: [OE] For a word so central to people’s perception of themselves, body is remarkably isolated linguistically. Old High German had potah ‘body’, traces of which survived dialectally into modern times, but otherwise it is without known relatives in any other Indo- European language. Attempts have been made, not altogether convincingly, to link it with words for ‘container’ or ‘barrel’, such as medieval Latin butica. The use of body to mean ‘person in general’, as in somebody, nobody, got fully under way in the 14th century.
body (n.)
Old English bodig "trunk, chest" (of a man or animal); related to Old High German botah, of unknown origin. Not elsewhere in Germanic, and the word has died out in German (replaced by leib, originally "life," and k?rper, from Latin). In English, extension to "person" is from late 13c. Meaning "main part" of anything was in late Old English, hence its use in reference to vehicles (1520s).
Contrasted with soul since at least mid-13c. Meaning "corpse" (short for dead body) is from late 13c. Transferred to matter generally in Middle English (as in heavenly body, late 14c.). Body politic "the nation, the state" first recorded 1520s, legalese, with French word order. Body image was coined 1935. Body language is attested from 1967, perhaps from French langage corporel (1966). Phrase over my dead body attested by 1833.
雙語例句
1. His resignation was a body blow to the team.
他的辭職是對該隊的沉重打擊。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The car passed over the body twice, once backward and then forward.
那輛車把那人來回軋了兩次，先是倒著軋的，再是往前開著軋的。
來自柯林斯例句
3. They would like to hand over their financial affairs to another body.
他們想把自己的財務移交給另一個機構管理。
來自柯林斯例句
4. "Let's invite her to dinner." — "Over my dead body!"
“我們請她來吃晚飯吧。”——“除非我死了！”
來自柯林斯例句
5. Xandra is an athletic 36-year-old with a 21-year-old's body.