chock-full: [14] There is more than one theory to account for this word. It occurs in a couple of isolated instances around 1400, as chokkefulle and chekeful, prompting speculation that the first element may be either chock ‘wooden block’, which came from an assumed Old Northern French *choque (thus ‘stuffed full with lumps of wood’) or cheek (thus ‘full up as far as the cheeks’). It resurfaces in the 17th century as choke-ful, which has given rise to the idea that it may originally have meant ‘so full as to choke’. The available evidence seems too scanty to come to a firm conclusion.
chock-full (adj.)
c. 1400, chokkeful "crammed full," possibly from choke "cheek" (see cheek (n.)). Or it may be from Old French choquier "collide, crash, hit" (13c., Modern French choquer), which is probably from Germanic (compare Middle Dutch schokken; see shock (n.1)).
雙語例句
1. The small roads are chock-a-block with traffic.
條條小路全擠滿了車馬行人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The shelves were chock-a-block with ornaments.
架子上堆滿了裝飾品。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. The town centre was chock - a - block ( with traffic ).
市中心 ( 車輛 ) 擠得水泄不通.
來自辭典例句
4. Chock the barrel up or else it will roll over.
用塞塊塞住圓桶,不然它會滾過去.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. The road was chock a - block with varieties of vehicles again today.