tongs: [OE] The etymological notion underlying the word tongs is of ‘biting’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *tanguz (source also of German zange, Dutch and Danish tang, and Swedish tång), which went back ultimately to the Indo-European base *dank- ‘bite’ (ancestor of Greek dáknein ‘bite’). (Tong ‘Chinese secret society’ [19], incidentally, comes from Cantonese tong ‘assembly hall’.)
tongs (n.)
Old English tange, tang "tongs, pincers, foreceps, instrument for holding and lifting," from Proto-Germanic *tango (cognates: Old Saxon tanga, Old Norse töng, Swedish tång, Old Frisian tange, Middle Dutch tanghe, Dutch tang, Old High German zanga, German Zange "tongs"), literally "that which bites," from PIE root *denk- "to bite" (cognates: Sanskrit dasati "biter;" Greek daknein "to bite," dax "biting"). For sense evolution, compare French mordache "tongs," from mordre "to bite."
中文解释
1. 谐音“痛”----该词的字面含义是“bite, that which bites”，咬你一下，当然痛啦，而夹子夹住东西，其实就像东西被咬住一样，所以才引申成“夹具、钳子”之意。
实用例句
1. a pair of tongs
一把夹剪来自《权威词典》
2. She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.
她用火钳再夹一些煤放进炉子里.来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs.
侍者用一把银钳从篮子里夹起面包卷。来自柯林斯例句
4. They yell, shout and argue. For six hours a night they go at it, hammer and tongs.
他们又叫又喊又吵，每晚都要乐此不疲地闹腾6个小时。来自柯林斯例句
5. He loved gardening. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.
