• n. 國王；最有勢力者；王棋
• vi. 統(tǒng)治；做國王
• vt. 立…為王
• adj. 主要的，最重要的，最大的
• n. (King)人名；(德、英、葡、捷、西)金；(中)金(普通話·威妥瑪)；(泰)京；(東南亞國家華語)京

縮寫自古英語cyning,國王，君主，統(tǒng)治者，來自Proto-Germanic*kuningaz,對應(yīng)于kin,家族，種族，氏族，-ing,集合名詞后綴。即一個家族或氏族的統(tǒng)領(lǐng)，后用于指國王，君主。引申詞義關(guān)鍵的，重要的，大的等。比較其與emperor的區(qū)別。

king

king: [OE] The prehistoric Germanic ancestor of king (as of German k?nig, Dutch koning, Swedish konung, and Danish konge) was *kuninggaz. This seems to have been a derivative of *kunjam ‘race, people’ (source of English kin). If it was, king means etymologically ‘descendant of the race, offspring of the people’.
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king (n.)

Old English cyning "king, ruler," from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz (cognates: Dutch koning, Old Norse konungr, Danish konge, Old Saxon and Old High German kuning, Middle High German künic, German K?nig). Possibly related to Old English cynn "family, race" (see kin), making a king originally a "leader of the people;" or from a related root suggesting "noble birth," making a king originally "one who descended from noble birth." The sociological and ideological implications render this a topic of much debate.

Finnish kuningas "king," Old Church Slavonic kunegu "prince" (Russian knyaz, Bohemian knez), Lithuanian kunigas "clergyman" are loans from Germanic.

As leon is the king of bestes. [John Gower, "Confessio Amantis," 1390]

In Old English, used for names of chiefs of Anglian and Saxon tribes or clans, then of the states they founded. Also extended to British and Danish chiefs they fought. The chess piece so called from early 15c.; the playing card from 1560s; use in checkers/draughts first recorded 1820. Applied in nature to species deemed remarkably big or dominant (such as king crab, 1690s). In marketing, king-size is from 1939, originally of cigarettes.

[I]t was [Eugene] Field who haunted the declining years of Creston Clarke with his review of that actor's Lear. ... Said he, "Mr. Clarke played the King all the evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace." ["Theatre Magazine," January 1922]

1. The King made major concessions to end the confrontation with his people.

為了結(jié)束與其臣民的沖突，國王作出了很大的讓步。

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2. The king's indulgence towards his sons angered the business community.

國王對兒子們的縱容令商界惱火。

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3. It is my destiny one day to be king.

我命中注定有一天要成為國王。

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4. The King has merely given the politicians enough rope to hang themselves.

國王只不過是給了這些政客自縛的繩子。

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5. The last French king was Louis Philippe, who abdicated in 1848.

法國末代國王是1848年遜位的路易·菲力普。

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