GRE暢通詞匯
助記提示
1. awl <===> awn.
2. Awl：嗷！被錐子扎到的慘叫----尖鉆，錐子。
3. 區(qū)分 owl 與 awl : 貓頭鷹的頭是圓的所以首字母是O, 錐子的頂部是尖的所以首字母是A, 你看大寫字母A本身就像一個錐子.
4. awn: n可以看成兩個l連在一起，所以表示像多個錐子、很多錐子一樣的東西 =》芒。
中文詞源
英文詞源
- awl
- awl: [OE] The Old English form, ?l, came from a hypothetical Germanic base *āl-, which had a probable relative in Sanskrit ārā. The compound bradawl was formed in the 19th century using the term brad ‘thin flat nail’, which came originally from Old Norse broddr ‘spike’. Awls, tools for making holes to take nails, are part of the shoemaker’s traditional set of implements: hence the apparently quite recent, early 20thcentury rhyming slang cobbler’s awls (cobblers for short) for ‘balls’.
- awl (n.)
- Old English ?l "awl, piercer," from Proto-Germanic *?lo (cognates: Old Norse alr, Dutch aal, Middle Low German al, Old High German ?la, German Ahle), which is of uncertain origin. Earliest references are to piercing of the ears, though later it was associated with shoemakers. Through misdivision, frequently written 15c.-17c. as nawl (for an awl; see N).
雙語例句
- 1. Six awl make a shoemaker.
- 六個鞋砧,練出一個鞋匠.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. AWL algorithm is also superior to other LRU improved algorithms.
- AWL算法 與其它LRU改進(jìn)算法相比也具有很大的優(yōu)勢.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. It was fun to play with an awl.
- 玩鉆子是件很有趣的事.
來自英漢非文學(xué) - 科學(xué)史
- 4. " But of course, " the captain said. " To begin with, I use an awl. "
- “ 好吧, ” 上尉說道, “ 首先, 我用的工具是鉆子. ”
來自英漢非文學(xué) - 科學(xué)史
- 5. An awl or pick for extracting letters from set type.
- 從字板上抽取字母的鋏子.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)