gadget基本信息
读法：英 ["gædʒɪt] 美 ["gædʒɪt]
释义：
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星级词汇：★★
英英释义
Noun:
中英词源
gadget 不知名的小装置
词源不详，用来指各种不知名的小装置。拼写变体widget.
- gadget
- gadget: [19] Gadget is an elusive sort of word, as vague in its history as it is unspecific in its meaning. It seems to have originated as a piece of sailors’ slang, and is said to have been current as long ago as the 1850s, but the earliest record of it in print is from 1886, in R Brown’s Spun Yarn and Spindrift: ‘Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don’t know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chickenfixing, or a gadjet, or a gill-guy, or a timmeynoggy, or a wim-wom – just pro tem., you know’.
As for its source, suggestions have included French gâchette ‘catch of a mechanism’ and French dialect gagée ‘tool’. - gadget (n.)
- 1886, gadjet (but said by OED corespondents to date from 1850s), sailors" slang word for any small mechanical thing or part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from French gâchette "catch-piece of a mechanism" (15c.), diminutive of gâche "staple of a lock." OED says derivation from gauge is "improbable."
词态变化
复数 gadgets;
权威造句
- 1. The gadget can be attached to any vertical surface.
- 这小玩意儿可以粘在任何垂直表面上。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The gadget can be attached to any vertical or near vertical surface.
- 该装置可以装在任何垂直或近似垂直的平面上。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television.
- 孩子们正在为抢夺电视机的遥控器而争吵。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The gadget is used to artificially inseminate cows.
- 这个器具被用来为母牛实施人工授精。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. This gadget isn"t much good.
- 这小机械没什么用处.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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