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To brandish something is to wave it around so that it looks dangerous — most often a knife, a stick, or a gun. The person is not holding it quietly; they are showing it, usually to scare someone. You meet this word in news reports more than in friendly talk. It is a little old-fashioned and a little formal, but newspapers still like it. It is not a general word for “hold up,” “show off,” or “wave hello.”
揮舞（尤指帶威脅地揮動武器）
組成From Old French brandir, “to wave a sword.” The old piece brand meant a burning stick or a sword; -ish here is the French verb ending, not English “a bit like.” From Middle English braundischen, from the Old French stem brandiss-, from Frankish *brandijan, from *brand (“firebrand; sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz; equivalent to brand + -ish.
同家族的字
- brandin the old sense a burning stick or a sword; brandish is to wave that
原始詞典資料3 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。
brandishverb/ˈbɹændɪʃ/
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To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.
- He brandished his sword at the pirates.
- Hvng be yͤ heauens vvith black, yield day to night; / Comets importing change of Times and States, / Brandiſh your cryſtall Treſſes in the Skie, / And vvith them ſcourge the bad reuolting Stars, / That haue conſented vnto Henries Death: / King Henry the Fift, too famous to liue long, / England ne're loſt a King of ſo much vvorth.
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To bear something with ostentatious show.
- to brandish syllogisms
- Long, however, the young ſpark did not remain, before, giving it [his penis] two or three ſhakes, by way of brandiſhing it, he threw himſelf upon her, […]
brandishnoun/ˈbɹændɪʃ/
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The act of flourishing or waving.
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。