- 1憑藉、靠（幾乎只出現在片語 by dint of）
You almost always meet this word in one short phrase: by dint of. It means “by using this method” or “because someone kept doing a hard thing.” She got the job by dint of hard work means the hard work is how she got there — not luck, and not a gift. The phrase sounds a little old and a little ; many people would just say by, through, or because of. Though actually, dint itself is older than that phrase. A dint was once a blow, a hit, the force of a strike, and also the mark the blow left (the same idea as a dent in a tin). So by dint of started as “by the force of.” In ordinary talk today almost nobody uses dint alone for a hit or a mark — dent took that job. There is an old verb to dint, “to hit or leave a mark,” but you will rarely see it.
組成From Old English dynt, “a blow, a strike, the mark a blow leaves,” from an old Germanic word for a blow. By dint of first meant “by force of.” It is a doublet of dent: two later shapes of the same older word. The verb came from the noun.
同家族的字
- dentsame old word for a blow and the mark it leaves; dent kept the “mark” meaning, while dint mostly lived on in by dint of
原始詞典資料5 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。
dintnoun詞源 1/dɪnt/
- 1
Especially in by dint of: force, power.
- O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity
- It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
- 2
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
- [D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.
- His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.
- 3
obsoleteA blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
- Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
- Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
dintverb詞源 2/dɪnt/
- 1
To dent.
- Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
- And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- didn’t
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