• vt. 用樹籬笆圍住；避免作正面答復
• vi. 用樹籬圍住；避免作正面答復
• n. 樹籬；障礙
• n. (Hedge)人名；(英)赫奇

來自古英語hecg,籬笆，籬笆墻，來自PIE*kagh,編織，抓住，圍住，詞源同hag,haw.后用于指樹籬，引申詞義緩沖，防備，拐彎抹角等。

hedge

hedge: [OE] Hedge traces its ancestry back to a prehistoric Germanic *khag-, which also produced the haw of hawthorn and possibly haggard and quay too. From it was derived the West Germanic noun *khagjō, which has since become differentiated into German hecke, Dutch heg, and English hedge. The compound hedgehog, an allusion to the animal’s piglike nose, dates from the 15th century (porcupine, literally ‘pig spine’, conveys much the same idea).
=> haggard, hawthorn, quay

hedge (n.)

Old English hecg, originally any fence, living or artificial, from West Germanic *khagja (cognates: Middle Dutch hegge, Dutch heg, Old High German hegga, German Hecke "hedge"), from PIE *kagh- "to catch, seize; wickerwork, fence" (cognates: Latin caulae "a sheepfold, enclosure," Gaulish caio "circumvallation," Welsh cae "fence, hedge"). Related to Old English haga "enclosure, hedge" (see haw). Figurative sense of "boundary, barrier" is from mid-14c. Prefixed to any word, it "notes something mean, vile, of the lowest class" [Johnson], from contemptuous attributive sense of "plying one's trade under a hedge" (hedge-priest, hedge-lawyer, hedge-wench, etc.), a usage attested from 1530s.

hedge (v.)

late 14c., "make a hedge," also "surround with a barricade or palisade;" from hedge (n.). The sense of "dodge, evade" is first recorded 1590s. That of "insure oneself against loss," as in a bet, by playing something on the other side is from 1670s, originally with in; probably from an earlier use of hedge in meaning "secure (a debt) by including it in a larger one which has better security" (1610s). Related: Hedged; hedging. The noun in the wagering sense is from 1736.

1. Hawker Siddeley tried to hedge its bets by diversifying into other fields.

霍克·西德利試圖通過在其他領域進行多樣化發展來規避風險。

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2. You can hedge against redundancy or illness with insurance.

可以購買保險以防失業或患病。

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3. I saw an old man out clipping his hedge.

我看見一位老人在外面修剪樹籬。

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4. Some 300 trees have been ranged along the perimeter hedge.

沿著綠籬栽種著大約300棵樹。

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5. The garden was enclosed by a privet hedge.

這個花園用女貞樹籬圈了起來。

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