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一、towel是什么意思

1、towel 毛巾，抹布

2、来自中古英语 towel,毛巾，来自 toaille,毛巾，来自 proto-germanic*thwahilo,洗手布，毛巾布， 来自 pie*twak,清洗，沐浴。-el,小词后缀。引申词义抹布，手巾等。

二、towel的用法

1、towel

2、towel: [13] a towel is etymologically something for ‘washing’ with. the word comes from old french toaille, which was a borrowing from prehistoric germanic *thwakhliō. this was derived from the verb *thwakhan ‘wash’, whose modern descendants include swedish tvätta and danish tvætte ‘wash’. another relative is swedish tvål ‘soap’.

3、towel (n.)

4、mid-13c., from old french toaille (12c.), from frankish *thwahlja, from proto-germanic *thwahlijan (cognates: old saxon thwahila, middle dutch dwale "towel," dutch dwaal "altar cloth," old high german dwehila "towel," german dialectal zwehle "napkin"); related to german zwagen, old english þwean "to wash." spanish toalla, italian tovaglia are germanic loan-words. to throw in the towel "admit defeat" (1915) is from boxing.

5、towel (v.)

6、1836 (transitive); 1861 (intransitive), from towel (n.). related: towelled; towelling.

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