skill: [12] Skill etymologically denotes not a physical accomplishment, but the mental capacity to make ‘distinctions’. It was borrowed from Old Norse skil ‘distinction, discernment, knowledge’, whose relatives include Dutch geschil ‘difference’, and which goes back ultimately to the prehistoric Germanic base *skel- ‘divide, separate’ (source also of English scale, shell, shield, etc). The modern English sense emerged in the 13th century. => scale, shell, shield
skill (n.)
late 12c., "power of discernment," from Old Norse skil "distinction, ability to make out, discernment, adjustment," related to skilja (v.) "to separate; discern, understand," from Proto-Germanic *skaljo- "divide, separate" (cognates: Swedish sk?l "reason," Danish skjel "a separation, boundary, limit," Middle Low German schillen "to differ," Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schele "separation, discrimination;" see shell (n.)). Sense of "ability, cleverness" first recorded early 13c.
雙語例句
1. The cut of a diamond depends on the skill of its craftsman.
鉆石切割靠的是工匠的技藝。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.
草藥醫(yī)術(shù)在西方已經(jīng)成了一門幾乎絕跡的技藝。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The crucial skill you need to develop is sorting out the parents.
你需要培養(yǎng)的關(guān)鍵技能就是讓那些家長認錯。
來自柯林斯例句
4. It takes great skill, cool nerves and the reflexes of an athlete.
那需要運動員有高超的技巧、冷靜的頭腦和迅速的反應(yīng)能力。
來自柯林斯例句
5. I regard creativity both as a gift and as a skill.