• n. 腳手架；鷹架；絞刑臺
• vt. 給…搭腳手架；用支架支撐

來自中古英語 scaffold,腳手架，臨時搭的平臺，來自古法語 eschaffaut,高臺，來自拉丁語 scadafaltum,來自 ex-,向外，catafalcum,高臺，高的看臺，可能來自 cata-,向下，falcum,架子， 平臺，詞源同 balcony,balk.后引申詞義斷頭臺，絞刑架。

scaffold

scaffold: [14] Historically, scaffold and catafalque [17] ‘coffin-stand’ are virtually the same word. Catafalque comes via French catafalque and Italian catafalco from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum, a word of uncertain origin. Combination with the prefix ex- produced *excatafalcum, which passed into English via Old French eschaffaut and Anglo-Norman *scaffaut.

The word originally denoted any sort of platform, and did not narrow down to ‘platform for executions’ until the 16th century. The derivative scaffolding, a term which originally alluded to the platforms set up around a building rather than to poles supporting them, also dates from the 14th century.
=> catafalque

scaffold (n.)

mid-14c., "wooden framework used in building, etc., temporary structure for workmen to make walls," a shortening of an Old North French variant of Old French eschafaut "scaffold" (Modern French échafaud), probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum (see catafalque). Meaning "platform for a hanging" is from 1550s. Dutch schavot, German Schafott, Danish skafot are from French. As a verb from 1540s.

1. Moore ascended the scaffold and addressed the executioner.

穆爾走上斷頭臺，和劊子手說話。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms.

他轉向刑臺, 向前伸出雙臂.

來自英漢文學 - 紅字

3. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!

隨后, 他就癱倒在刑臺上了!

來自英漢文學 - 紅字

4. Treating each tree as a separate scaffold of a very low - headed tree.

將每棵樹作為一個樹冠很矮的骨干枝來處理.

來自辭典例句

5. The men on the scaffold turned about and drank to our healths.

腳手架上的工人也轉過身來為我們的健康干杯.

來自辭典例句