更新时间：2024-04-25 08:57:17作者：留学之路
词源词根法
改写自古英语blindfellen。blind，瞎。fell，砍伐，击倒。原指打瞎，后改成fold，折叠，指眼罩。blindfold和fold没有丝毫关系，在中世纪英语中原作blindfellen/blindfelden，由blind（瞎的）加fellen‘to fell’（击倒）构成，字面义为to strike someone blind（打瞎子）。那么它后来是如何演变为blindfold的呢？英国有一古老的捉迷藏游戏，叫blindman's buff/bluff。一人蒙住双眼摸索着去捉在他周围来回躲闪的人，捉住后辨认所捉的人是谁。这一游戏汉语有时译作“摸瞎子”，蒙跟的布通常是一块折叠起来的（folded）手帕。因此人们常将btindfellen的过去分词形式blindfeld/blindfelled和fold（折叠）一词相联系，久而久之就渐渐演化为blindfold这一形式，既可用作形容词，表示“被蒙住眼睛的”，也可用作动词，表示“蒙住…的服睛”。
The blindfold was placed across his eyes and tied firmly at the back of his head.
一个眼罩蒙住了他的眼睛,紧紧地系在他的脑后.
来源：网络期刊摘选Again he agreed to her request and she put a blindfold over his eyes.
牧师同意了她的请求,让女人给他戴上了眼罩.
来源：网络期刊摘选For now you must wear this blindfold.
从现在开始你必须戴上这个眼罩.
来源：网络期刊摘选And , indeed , except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin.
如果不蒙上双眼她的皮肤就不再具有识别物体的能力.
来源：网络期刊摘选I can do it blindfold.
我闭着眼睛都能做.
来源：网络期刊摘选I had to learn to approach this one with no bat and with a blindfold on.
我必须学著在手中没有球棒,眼睛蒙著布的情况下打这一颗曲球.
来源：网络期刊摘选Theories deviating practices are inane , while practices deviating theories are blindfold.
脱离实践的理论是空泛的, 脱离理论指导的实践是盲目的.
来源：网络期刊摘选The prisoner wore a blindfold when he was executed.
行刑时犯人戴着眼罩.
来源：《简明英汉词典》Justice is often personified as a blindfold woman holding a pair of scales.
常把蒙著眼睛手持天平的女人当作正义的象徵.
来源：网络期刊摘选Legolatte peeked out from under his cheesecloth blindfold. Alas for the folly of these days!
莱戈拉特从他的粗棉眼罩里往外偷看, [真可惜,这种愚行真是浪费了大好时光!
来源：网络期刊摘选