purse是什么意思_purse怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

purse: purse: [OE] Purse was borrowed into Old English from late Latin bursa (source of English bursar [13] and reimburse [17]), which went back to Greek búrsa. This originally meant ‘skin, leather’, and hence came to be used for ‘wineskin, bag’. The Latin word was also borrowed into the Celtic languages, where it produced Gaelic sporan, source of English sporran.
=> bursar, reimburse, sporran
purse (n.): Old English pursa "little bag made of leather," especially for carrying money, from Medieval Latin bursa "leather purse" (source also of Old French borse, 12c., Modern French bourse; see bourse), from Late Latin bursa, variant of byrsa "hide," from Greek byrsa "hide, leather." Change of b- to p- perhaps by influence of Old English pusa, Old Norse posi "bag."

Meaning "woman"s handbag" is attested from 1951. Meaning "sum of money collected as a prize in a race, etc.," is from 1640s. Purse-strings, figurative for "control of money," is from early 15c. Purse-snatcher first attested 1902 (earlier purse-picker, 1540s). The notion of "drawn together by a thong" also is behind purse-net (c. 1400).
purse (v.): c. 1300, "put in a purse;" c. 1600 as "draw together and wrinkle" (as the strings of a money bag), from purse (n.). Related: Pursed; pursing.

词态变化

复数 purses;
第三人称单数 purses;
过去式 pursed;
过去分词 pursed;
现在分词 pursing;

1. She looked at me and then reached in her purse for cigarettes.: 她看看我，接着伸手去包里拿香烟。

2. The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.: 银行一直迟迟不愿放开资金。

fund

prize

wallet

moneybag

purse strings n. 钱袋口上的绳子,金钱

purse and person 财与人

national purse 国库

purse pride n.富裕引起的傲慢,铜臭骄

purse up v. 缩拢,皱起

long purse 富有，富裕

change purse 【美】小钱包

the public purse n.国库

purse string phr. 荷包缝合线

Privy Purse (英国等的)国王私用金

这些名词均含“袋”之意。
bag普通用词，指一般的口袋，有时也指手提包。
sack应用较窄，指较大的袋子，如麻袋等。
handbag指手提包，尤指女人用的手提包。
purse指钱包或小钱袋，在美国相当于bandbag。

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