elbow是什么意思_elbow怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

elbow: elbow: [OE] Logically enough, elbow means etymologically ‘arm bend’. It comes from a prehistoric West and North Germanīc *alinobogan (which also produced German ellenbogen, Dutch elleboog, and Danish albue). This was a compound formed from *alinā ‘forearm’ and *bogan (source of English bow). However, there is a further twist.

For *alinā (source also of English ell [OE], a measure of length equal to that of the forearm) itself goes back ultimately to an Indo-European base *el-, *ele- which itself meant ‘bend’, and produced not just words for ‘forearm’ (such as Latin ulna), but also words for ‘elbow’ (such as Welsh elin). So at this deepest level of all, elbow means tautologically ‘bend bend’.
=> bow, ell, ulna
elbow (n.): "bend of the arm," c. 1200, elbowe, from a contraction of Old English elnboga "elbow," from Proto-Germanic *elino-bugon, literally "bend of the forearm" (cognates: Middle Dutch ellenboghe, Dutch elleboog, Old High German elinbogo, German Ellenboge, Old Norse ölnbogi). For first element, see ell (n.1) "length of the forearm;" second element represented by Old English boga "bow, arch" (see bow (n.1)).

Second element related to Old English bugan "to bend" (see bow (v.)); first element from *alina "arm," from PIE *el- (1) "elbow, forearm" (see ell (n.1)). To be out at elbows (1620s) was literally to have holes in one"s coat. Phrase elbow grease "hard rubbing" is attested from 1670s, from jocular sense of "the best substance for polishing furniture." Elbow-room, "room to extend one"s elbows," hence, "ample room for activity," attested 1530s.
elbow (v.): "thrust with the elbow," c. 1600, from elbow (n.). Figurative sense is from 1863. Related: Elbowed; elbowing.

词态变化

复数 elbows;
第三人称单数 elbows;
过去式 elbowed;
过去分词 elbowed;
现在分词 elbowing;

权威造句

1. When you are sitting, keep your elbow on the arm rest.: 坐立时，把胳膊肘靠在扶手上。

2. There was not much elbow room in the cockpit of a Snipe.: “沙锥鸟”战斗机的驾驶舱空间不太宽敞。

3. He lay beside her awkwardly, propped on an elbow.: 他用一只胳膊肘支着身体，别扭地躺在她旁边。

4. Non-state firms gradually elbow aside the inefficient state-owned ones.: 非国有企业逐渐挤掉了效率低下的国有企业。

5. I placed his drink on the small table at his elbow.: 我把他的饮料放在他肘边的小桌子上。

近反义词

jostle 推

bump 碰撞

push 推

shove 推挤

dig 挖

nudge 轻推

poke 戳

prod 刺针

hustle 催促

shoulder 肩膀

bend 弯曲

bulldoze （用推土机）推平某物...

right angle 直角

right 正确的

angle 角度

cubitus [解]前臂

elbow joint 肘关节

articulatio cubiti 肘关节

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相似短语

elbow connection 弯接头

elbow in the hawse 锚链绞花

elbow meter 弯管流量计

elbow pipe 弯管，肘管

elbow prosthesis 假肘

elbow telescope 肘形望远镜

flanged elbow 法兰弯头

female elbow 内螺纹弯管接头

street elbow 导径弯管，带内外螺纹的弯管接头，长臂肘管，异径弯头

union elbow 中间弯头，联管肘管

单词分析

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记忆方法

曲肘(elbow)成弓(bow)

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