blindfold: [16] The original term for covering someone’s eyes with a bandage was blindfell [OE], which survived until the 16th century. This meant literally ‘strike someone blind’, the second element being the fell of ‘felling trees’. It appears that its past form, blindfelled, came to be mistaken for a present form, and this, together with some perceived connection with fold (presumably the ‘folding’ of the bandage round somebody’s head), conspired to produce the new verb blindfold.
blindfold (v.)
1520s, alteration, by similarity to fold, of blindfelled (early 14c.), past participle of blindfellan "blindfold, cover the eyes (with a bandage, etc.)," also "to strike blind" (c. 1200), from Old English (ge)blindfellian "to strike blind," from blind (adj.) + Anglian gefeollan "to strike down," as in to fell a tree (see fell (v.)). Related: Blindfolded; blindfolding.
blindfold (n.)
1880, from blindfold (v.).
双语例句
1. The prisoner wore a blindfold when he was executed.
行刑时犯人戴着眼罩.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. The Australian chess grandmaster Ian Rogers took on six opponents blindfold and beat five.
澳大利亚国际象棋顶级大师伊恩·罗杰斯和6位对手下盲棋，战胜了5位。
来自柯林斯例句
3. He read the letter again although already he could have recited its contents blindfold.
尽管对信的内容已经能够倒背如流了，他还是又看了一遍。
来自柯林斯例句
4. I could do that blindfold , ie easily , regardless of obstacles.