• n. 彎刀；大砍刀；馬謝特琴
• n. (Machete)人名；(西)馬切特；(葡)馬謝特

來(lái)自西班牙語(yǔ)macho,錘子，鐵錘，-ete,小詞后綴，來(lái)自來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)mateola,錘子，鐵錘，詞源同mace.字面意思即小鐵錘，但后用于指砍刀，彎刀。參照電影《彎刀》。

machete (n.)

1590s (in pseudo-Spanish form macheto), from Spanish machete, probably a diminutive of macho "sledge hammer," alteration of mazo "club," which is probably [Barnhart] a dialectal variant of maza "mallet," from Vulgar Latin *mattea "war club" (see mace (n.1)). An alternative explanation traces macho to Latin marculus "a small hammer," diminutive of marcus "hammer," from a base parallel to that of Latin malleus (see mallet).

1. He slashed at the vines with a machete.

他用大刀亂砍藤蔓.

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2. He made a stroke with the machete and the impact snapped it out of his hand.

他一刀砍下去,砰的一聲,把刀子都震飛了.

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3. She was badly wounded by a machete and left for dead.

她被一把彎刀砍得嚴(yán)重受傷,兇手以為她死了就沒(méi)管她.

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4. He strutted ahead lashing his machete about.

他大踏步前進(jìn),甩動(dòng)著彎刀.

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5. The machete is the weapon of choice.

使用的兇器是彎刀.

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