• vi. 旋轉；紡紗；吐絲；暈眩
• vt. 使旋轉；紡紗；編造；結網
• n. 旋轉；疾馳

來自古英語 spinnan,紡紗，織線，來自 Proto-Germanic*spenwan,彎，轉，紡織，來自 PIE*spen, 彎，轉，紡織，詞源同 spider,spinner.引申諸相關詞義。

spin

spin: [OE] Spin is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German and Dutch spinnen, Swedish spinna, and Danish spinde. It goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European base *spen- or *pen- ‘stretch’ which also produced English span, Lithuanian pinti ‘plait’, and Old Church Slavonic peti ‘stretch’. English words derived from it or its immediate Germanic ancestor include spider, spill ‘slip of wood’, spindle [OE], and spinster [14] (originally a ‘female spinner’, and not used as a designation of an unmarried woman until the 17th century).
=> spider, spill, spindle, spinster

spin (v.)

Old English spinnan (transitive) "draw out and twist fibers into thread," strong verb (past tense spann, past participle spunnen), from Proto-Germanic *spenwan (cognates: Old Norse and Old Frisian spinna, Danish spinde, Dutch spinnen, Old High German spinnan, German spinnen, Gothic spinnan), from PIE *spen-wo-, from root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin" (cognates: Armenian henum "I weave;" Greek patos "garment," literally "that which is spun;" Lithuanian pinu "I plait, braid," spandau "I spin;" Middle Welsh cy-ffiniden "spider;" see span (v.)).

Intransitive senses of "to form threads from fibrous stuff; to twist, writhe" developed in late Old English. Transitive sense of "cause to turn rapidly" is from 1610s; intransitive meaning "revolve, turn around rapidly" first recorded 1660s. Meaning "attempt to influence reporters' minds after an event has taken place but before they have written about it" seems to have risen to popularity in the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign; as in spin doctor, first attested 1984.

spin (n.)

1831, "a rapid revolving motion," from spin (v.). Meaning "fairly rapid ride" is from 1856. Sense of "a twisting delivery in throwing or striking a ball" is from 1851. Sense in physics is from 1926. Meaning "act of playing a phonograph record" is from 1977. Meaning "influence imparted by a media source" is from 1984.

1. The boat started to spin around in the water.

船開始在水中打旋。

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2. Poor Jane was in rather a spin about the party.

可憐的簡對這次聚會真有些不知所措。

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3. The Government will try to spin out the conference into next autumn.

政府會竭力將會議拖長到下個秋季。

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4. The company put out a report on commercial spin-offs from its research.

公司公布了一份有關其研究活動所產生的商業副產品的報告。

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5. Corven plans to help large companies spin out smaller, entrepreneurial firms.

科文計劃幫大公司分立出一些小型企業。

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