engrave
verb🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪv/
🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪv/
[often passive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they engrave | 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪv/ 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪv/ |
| he / she / it engraves | 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvz/ 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvz/ |
| past simple engraved | 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ |
| past participle engraved | 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ |
| -ing form engraving | 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ/ |
to cut words or designs on wood, stone, metal, etc. 在…上雕刻（字或图案） - A is engraved (with B)
The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。 🔊🔊 - B is engraved on A
His name was engraved on the silver cup. 他的名字刻在了银杯上。 🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEngrave is used with these nouns as the object:- inscription
Word Originlate 15th cent. (formerly also as ingrave): from en-, in- ‘in, on’ + grave, ‘engrave an inscription on a surface’ influenced by obsolete French engraver.- A is engraved (with B)
Idioms
be engraved on/in your heart, memory, mind, etc.
to be something that you will never forget because it affected you so strongly 牢记，铭记，深深印入（心中、记忆中、头脑中等） The date of the accident remains engraved on my mind. 事故的日期仍然刻在我的脑海中。