from: [OE] From goes back ultimately to Indo- European *pr, which also produced English first, for, fore, foremost, former, and before. The addition of a suffix -m gave a word denoting ‘forward movement, advancement’ (as in Greek prómos ‘foremost’). By the time it reached Old English as from or fram the notion of ‘moving forward or onward’ had passed into ‘moving away’. The related fro [12], now little used except in to and fro, comes from Old Norse frá. => before, first, for, fore, former, forth, fro, primary
from (prep., adv.)
Old English fram, preposition denoting departure or movement away in time or space, from Proto-Germanic *fra "forward, away from" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic fram "from, away," Old Norse fra "from," fram "forward"), from PIE *pro-mo-, suffixed form of *pro (see pro-); the Germanic sense of "moving away" apparently evolved from the notion of "forward motion." It is related to Old English fram "forward; bold; strong," and fremian "promote, accomplish" (see frame (v.)).
双语例句
1. He knew what he wanted to do from the age of 14.
他14岁起就知道自己日后干什么了。
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2. He was fired from his job after roughing up a colleague.
他因为对一位同事动粗而被开除了。
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3. I got quite a lot of ribbing from my team-mates.
队友们经常开我的玩笑。
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4. His destination was Chobham Common, a long way from his Cotswold home.
他的目的地是乔伯姆公地，那里和他在科茨沃尔德的家离得很远。
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5. Early American weathervanes were most often cut from flat wooden boards.