ditch
英[d?t?]
美[d?t?]
- vt. 在…上掘溝；把…開入溝里；丟棄
- vi. 開溝；掘溝
- n. 溝渠；壕溝
詞態變化
復數:?ditches;第三人稱單數:?ditches;過去式:?ditched;過去分詞:?ditched;現在分詞:?ditching;
助記提示
1. k ----------------> ch/tch.
2. dike => ditch.
3. 臭水溝.
中文詞源
ditch 溝渠
詞源同dig, dike. 插入字母t, 比較bake, batch.
英文詞源
- ditch
- ditch: [OE] Like its close relative dyke [13], ditch probably comes ultimately from a long-lost language once spoken on the shores of the Baltic. Its source-word seems to have represented an all-embracing notion of ‘excavation’, including not just the hole dug but also the mound formed from the excavated earth (which perhaps supports the suggestion that dig belongs to the same word-family). This dichotomy of sense is preserved in dyke, whose original meaning, from Old Norse dík, was ‘ditch’, but which came in the 15th century to denote ‘embankment’ (probably under the influence of Middle Dutch dijc ‘dam’).
=> dig, dyke - ditch (n.)
- Old English dic "ditch, dike," a variant of dike (q.v.). Last ditch (1715) refers to the last line of military defenses.
- ditch (v.)
- late 14c., "surround with a ditch; dig a ditch;" from ditch (n.). Meaning "to throw into a ditch" is from 1816, hence sense of "abandon, discard," first recorded 1899 in American English. Of aircraft, by 1941. Related: Ditched; ditching.
雙語例句
- 1. I can't bring myself to ditch him and start again.
- 我不忍心蹬掉他再覓新歡。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.
- 我們僅能依稀辨出橋下一條雜草叢生的窄溝。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She underwent a heart transplant in a last-ditch attempt to save her.
- 她動了心臟移植手術，這是為挽救她的生命而作的最后一次努力。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.
- 自行車翻倒在一條小水溝里。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. With the blind leading the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
- 如果瞎子替瞎子帶路的話, 那么兩方肯定會掉到溝里.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》