• n. 行动；功绩；证书；[法] 契据
• vt. 立契转让

来自PIE*dhe, 做，树立，放置，词源同do, fact. 用于指行为，契约。

deed

deed: [OE] Etymologically, a deed is ‘that which is done’. An ancient word, it can be traced back as far as a hypothetical *dhētis, a noun derived from *dhē-, *dhō- ‘place, put’, the Indo- European base from which do comes. This passed into Germanic as *d?diz, which produced German tat, Dutch daad, and Swedish d?ad as well as English deed. The word’s application to a legal document is a 14th-century development.
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deed (n.)

Old English d?d "a doing, act, action, transaction, event," from Proto-Germanic *d?dis (cognates: Old Saxon dad, Old Norse dae, Old Frisian dede, Middle Dutch daet, Dutch daad, Old High German tat, German Tat "deed," Gothic gadets "a putting, placing"), from PIE *dhetis (cognates: Lithuanian detis "load, burden," Greek thesis "a placing, setting"), from *dhe- "place, put" (see do). Sense of "written legal document" is early 14c. As a verb, 1806, American English Related: Deeded; deeding.

1. The perpetrators of this evil deed must be brought to justice.

必须将参与这一恶行的凶手绳之以法。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Smith changed his name by deed poll to Jervis-Smith.

史密斯通过单边契据将自己的名字更改为杰维斯&dash1;史密斯。

来自《权威词典》

3. A man's deed is the touchstone of his greatness or littleness.

行动是一个人伟大或者渺小的试金石.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. You are not going to fool me into such a deed.

你不要哄骗我去干那种事.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.

他不会做出这么残忍的事.

来自《简明英汉词典》