plight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 plīt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dire or unfortunate situation.
    — Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
  2. Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril. dialectal
  3. A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment. obsolete
    — Many a folded plight.
  4. A (neutral) condition or state. archaic
    — although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…].
  5. An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation. dialectal
  6. Good health. obsolete
    — All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].
  7. Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime. dialectal
  8. One's office; duty; charge. dialectal
  9. That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge. archaic
    — Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty
动词 v.
  1. To expose to risk; to pledge. archaic,transitive
  2. To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait. obsolete
    — ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,
  3. Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony. transitive
    — "Travel shall I and woo; Plight me shall I a flower; Try shall I my sword so good, To my weal or my woe in the stour."
  4. To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something. reflexive
    — I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

词形变化

plights plural plights plural plights present,singular,third-person plighting participle,present plighted participle,past plighted past plights present,singular,third-person plighting participle,present plighted participle,past plighted past plights plural

词汇关系

衍生词
plightful plightless plightly plighty replight trothplight unplight plighter

词源

词源 1
From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).
词源 2
From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German Plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge.
词源 3
From Middle English plyghten, plyȝten, pleyȝten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below).
词源 4
From Middle English pliȝt, plight, plyt, pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (“pleat, fold”). More at plait.
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