jeopardy「伤害」的运用及劈头

Word of the Day:January 28, 2021

jeopardy

伤害；伤害边沿；伤害地步

noun JEP-er-dee

wd20210128.mp31:51来自E语Tong

Definition

1：exposure to or imminence of death, loss, or injury : danger

遭遇或即将面临殒命，丧失或损伤：伤害

2 law : the danger that an accused person is subjected to when on trial for a criminal offense

执法上：被告因刑事犯法而遭到审判的伤害

Examples

Rather than risk placing passengers in jeopardy, the pilot waited for the storm to pass before taking off.

飞行员并没有冒险让游客堕入伤害之中，而是等候暴风雨事后才腾飞。

“… and cornerback Richard Sherman’s in jeopardy of missing the last two games with calf stiffness that has bothered him since September.” — Chris Biderman, The Sacramento (California) Bee, 23 Dec. 2020

“…后卫理查德·谢尔曼由于小腿僵硬而有约莫出席最初的两场比赛，这事从九月开头就不休困扰着他。”

Did You Know?

Geoffrey Chaucer employed the word jeopardy in his late 14th-century masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, but its Middle English form can make it hard to spot: it appears in the phrase “in jupartie” with a meaning very much akin to the word’s meaning in the modern phrase “in jeopardy”—that is, “in danger.” The spellings of what we now render only as jeopardy were formerly myriad. The Oxford English Dictionary reports that between the late 14th and mid-17th centuries the word was spelled in a great variety of ways, among them iuperti, yoberte, iepardye, ieoberye, and jobardy.

Geoffrey Chaucer在其14世纪后期的著作《坎特伯雷故事》中接纳了 jeopardy「伤害」一词，但此中古英语情势很难识别：它显如今短语“in jupartie”中，意思与古代用语“in jeopardy”相反，即“in danger「处于伤害之中」”。我们如今展现 jeopardy 的拼写以前是myriad。在《牛津英语辞书》报道中，在14世纪末至17世纪中叶，这个单词的拼写办法多种多样，此中包含iuperti，yoberte，iepardye，ieoberye和Jobardy。