• vt. 砍；劈；砍倒
• vi. 砍；劈；堅持
• n. (Hew)人名；(英)休；(東南亞國家華語)丘

來自PIE*kau,擊，打，砍，詞源同hay,hoe.進一步來自PIE*sek,砍，劈，切，詞源同segment,scissors.

hew (v.)

Old English heawan "to chop, hack, gash" (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, past participle heawen), earlier geheawan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (cognates: Old Norse hoggva, Old Frisian hawa, Old Saxon hauwan, Middle Dutch hauwen, Dutch houwen, Old High German houwan, German hauen "to cut, strike, hew"), from PIE root *kau- "to hew, strike" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic kovo, Lithuanian kauju "to beat, forge;" Latin cudere "to strike, beat;" Middle Irish cuad "beat, fight").

Weak past participle hewede appeared 14c., but hasn't displaced hewn. Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to) developed from hew to the line "stick to a course," literally "cut evenly with an axe or saw," first recorded 1891. Related: Hewed; hewing.

1. Every student must hew to the rules and regulations of the college.

每個學生都要遵守學校的規章制度.

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2. He knew better than to attempt to hew rocks with razor.

他知道刀片不能劈石頭.

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3. We should hew to the Party's line.

我們應該堅持黨的路線.

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4. They hew it out of the rock.

他們用石頭來雕它.

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5. This made us rough - hew our plans.

這促使我們草草盤算我們的計劃.

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