fathom

fathom怎么读

英式音标：[ˈfæðəm]

美式音标：[ˈfæðəm]

fathom基本解释

vt. 看穿；彻底了解；测量…的深度

n. 英寻（测量水深的长度单位）

fathom的意思释义

n.

英寻；

vt.

理解…的真意；推测，领会；测深；

变形

复数：fathomsfathom过去式：fathomed过去分词：fathomed现在分词：fathoming第三人称单数：fathoms

英英释义

n.

a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth

同义词：fthm

(mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore

同义词：fthm

v.

come to understand

同义词：penetratebottom

measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

同义词：sound

fathom用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The ship sank in four fathoms.

这条船沉下四英寻。

用作不及物动词(vi.)

This kind of love is difficult to fathom, but it\'s fundamentally reliable.

虽然很难去测量这种爱有多深，但是它却完全可以信赖。

用作及物动词(vt.)

I cannot fathom his meaning.

我不能彻底了解他的意思。

He dipped the stick into the water to fathom its depth.

他把棍条浸入水中，试探水的深度。

例句参考

Fathom:a browser-based network measurement platform

Fathom: a browser-based network measurement platform

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom:

Spring-Summer Diet of Lake Trout on Six Fathom Bank and Yankee Reef in Lake Huron

Status of Lake Trout Rehabilitation on Six Fathom Bank and Yankee Reef in Lake Huron

The thermal variability of the waters of Fathom Five National Marine Park, Lake Huron.

Lake Trout Spawning Habitat in the Six Fathom Bank-Yankee Reef Lake Trout Sanctuary, Lake Huron

On the Fauna and Bottom-Deposits near the Thirty-Fathom Line from the Eddystone Grounds to Start Point

Decapod crustacean fauna of Seven and One-Half Fathom Reef, Texas: Species composition, abundance, and species diversity

fathom词源

fathom

fathom: [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of fathom appears to be ‘stretching out, spreading’. It probably comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *pot-, *pet-, which also produced Latin patēre ‘be open’ (source of English patent) and Greek pétalos ‘outspread’ (source of English petal). Its Germanic descendant was *fath-, which produced the noun *fathmaz, direct ancestor of Old English fæthm.Here, the notion of ‘stretching out’ seems to have spread via ‘stretching out the arms’ to, on the one hand ‘embrace’ (and one meaning of Old English fæthm was ‘embrace, bosom’), and on the other ‘length spanned by outstretched arms’ – about six feet.=> patent, petal

fathom (n.)

Old English fæðm \"length of the outstretched arm\" (a measure of about six feet), also \"arms, grasp, embrace,\" and, figuratively \"power,\" from Proto-Germanic *fathmaz \"embrace\" (cognates: Old Norse faðmr \"embrace, bosom,\" Old Saxon fathmos \"the outstretched arms,\" Dutch vadem \"a measure of six feet\"), from PIE *pot(ə)-mo-, from root *petə- \"to spread, stretch out\" (see pace (n.)). It has apparent cognates in Old Frisian fethem, German faden \"thread,\" which OED explains by reference to \"spreading out.\" As a unit of measure, in an early gloss it appears for Latin passus, which was about 5 feet.

fathom (v.)

Old English fæðmian \"to embrace, surround, envelop,\" from a Proto-Germanic verb derived from the source of fathom (n.); cognates: Old High German fademon, Old Norse faþma. The meaning \"take soundings\" is from c. 1600; its figurative sense of \"get to the bottom of, penetrate with the mind, understand\" is from 1620s. Related: Fathomed; fathoming.