- 1首當其衝（bear/take the brunt of）；最猛烈的那一波衝擊
Brunt is a noun: the worst, heaviest part of something bad that hits a person or a group. You almost never say the word by itself. English speakers keep it in a small set of phrases — bear the brunt of, take the brunt of. If a storm hits a town, the houses by the sea may take the brunt of it: they get the strongest wind and the most damage. If a company cuts jobs, one team may bear the brunt of the cuts. People also stretch it a little: the brunt of the work means the largest, hardest share, even when nobody is attacking anybody. You will hear it in news, at work, and in serious talk. It is not slang, and it is not a word for a small everyday bother. Though actually, you cannot really “brunt” someone — it is not a verb in normal English, even though the meaning sounds like an action.
組成From Middle English brunt / bront, “a sudden attack, a charge, a blow.” That probably came from Old Norse: either brundr / brundtíð (the heat of animals in mating season) or bruna, “to rush,” literally “to go forward like wildfire.” Scholars are not sure which. The old picture is a sudden rush or blow; today’s English kept the “worst of the hit” part.
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Bruntname
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A surname.
bruntnoun/bɹʌnt/
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The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
- Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
- There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
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The force or shock of an attack in war.
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The major part of something; the bulk.
- If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
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obsoleteA violent attack or charge in battle.
- Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them? Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot, Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
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obsoleteA sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
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obsoleteA spurt, a sudden effort or straining.
bruntverb/bɹʌnt/
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rareTo bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
- "… I say." Ripton resumed the serious intonation, "do you think they'll ever suspect us?" "What if they do? We must brunt it." We brunted the storm.
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obsoleteTo make a violent attack or charge.
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