foe: [OE] Foe is the modern descendant of the Old English noun gefā ‘enemy’, a derivative of Germanic *faikh-. This also produced the Old English adjective fāh ‘hostile’, and was the ultimate source of modern English feud. => feud
foe (n.)
Old English gefea, gefa "foe, enemy, adversary in a blood feud" (the prefix denotes "mutuality"), from adjective fah "at feud, hostile," also "guilty, criminal," from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cognates: Old High German fehan "to hate," Gothic faih "deception"), probably from PIE root *peig- (2) "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (cognates: Sanskrit pisunah "malicious," picacah "demon;" Greek pikros "bitter;" Latin piget "it irks, troubles, displeases," piger "reluctant, lazy;" Lithuanian piktas "wicked, angry," pekti "to blame"). Weaker sense of "adversary" is first recorded c. 1600.
双语例句
1. He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.
他明白卡尔可能会成为他的死敌.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. With power and to spare we must pursue the tottering foe.
宜将剩勇追穷寇.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3. The stag at bay is a dangerous foe.
穷寇勿追.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. Shakur loses his fragile grip on reality and starts blasting away at friends and foe alike.
沙库尔丧失了对形势仅存的一点判断，无论对敌对友都开始大加挞伐。
来自柯林斯例句
5. A friend is a friend ; a foe is a foe; one must be clearly distinguished from the other.