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You almost never meet loggerheads by itself. People say two people, two groups, or two countries are at loggerheads, and it means they disagree very strongly — stuck, often angry, and not coming together. Newspapers still like the phrase; it is a little colourful and a little old-fashioned, but fully alive. It is not about heads, and it is not about cutting trees, even though and heads both sit in the spelling. For this meaning you do not walk around calling someone “a loggerhead” in ordinary modern talk; learn the whole chunk: at loggerheads (with someone).
針鋒相對、鬧翻(at loggerheads)
組成The phrase is old. One likely story is that a loggerhead was once a stubborn or foolish person; another is that a loggerhead was a heavy iron tool, and people fought with them. Scholars do not all agree, so those are “probably” stories, not a tidy fact.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Loggerheadsname
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A village and civil parish in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7336).
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A small village in Llanferres community, Denbighshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ1962).
loggerheadsnoun
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Fisticuffs; fighting.
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dialectalThe knapweed.
- Loggerheads is a local term for a harmless plant called the knapweed (centaurea nigra) […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。