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A heavy iron block in a metalworker’s shop. You heat metal, hold it on the anvil, and hit it with a hammer to change its shape. The top is hard and flat; many anvils have a pointed horn at one end for bending. Old, concrete, workshop English. People also call one tiny bone in the middle ear the anvil because it looks like a miniature one — same picture, different place. In a set phrase, stuck between the hammer and the anvil means squeezed from both sides. The assigned meaning here is the iron block you hammer on.
鐵砧
組成From Old English (anfilt, anfilte), from a West Germanic compound *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”): the thing you beat on. Middle English had forms like anfilt, anvelt, anfelt.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
anvilnoun/ˈæn.vəl/
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A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
- My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow, Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers […]
- I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor’s news […]
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe incus bone in the middle ear.
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A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
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The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
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climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
anvilverb/ˈæn.vəl/
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To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
- I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age, Which I commit, not to your patronage, But skill and Art […]
- The Family Tang caus’d an Iron Pillar to be erected there of three Rods high, and of a proportionable thickness, Anvil’d out of an intire Piece.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。