box是什么意思_box怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned;"the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter"s box"

the driver"s seat on a coach;"an armed guard sat in the box with the driver"

separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people;"the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold"

a blow with the hand (usually on the ear);"I gave him a good box on the ear"

Verb:

put into a box;"box the gift, please"

hit with the fist;"I"ll box your ears!"

engage in a boxing match

中英词源

box 箱子，黄杨木，拳击

1.箱子，来自拉丁词buxis, 黄杨木，后指黄杨木做的箱子。可能同bush.

2.拳击，拟声词。wWw.WEnTiYi.cOm

box: box: English has two distinct words box. The ‘receptacle’ [OE] probably comes from late Latin buxis, a variant of Latin pyxis (whence English pyx ‘container for Communion bread’ [14]). This was borrowed from Greek puxís, which originally meant not simply ‘box’, but specifically ‘box made of wood’; for it was a derivative of Greek púxos, which via Latin buxus has given English box the tree [OE]. Box ‘fight with the fists’ first appeared in English as a noun, meaning ‘blow’ [14], now preserved mainly in ‘a box round the ears’.

Its ancestry is uncertain: it may be related to Middle Dutch bōke and Danish bask ‘blow’, or it could simply be an obscure metaphorical extension of box ‘receptacle’.
=> pyx
box (n.1.): Old English box "a wooden container," also the name of a type of shrub, from Late Latin buxis, from Greek pyxis "boxwood box," from pyxos "box tree," which is of uncertain origin. See OED entry for discussion. German Büchse also is a Latin loan word.

Meaning "compartment at a theater" is from c. 1600. Meaning "pigeon-hole at a post office" is from 1832. Meaning "television" is from 1950. Slang meaning "vulva" is attested 17c., according to "Dictionary of American Slang;" modern use seems to date from c.World War II, perhaps originally Australian, on notion of "box of tricks." Box office is 1786; in the figurative sense of "financial element of a performance" it is first recorded 1904. Box lunch (n.) attested from 1899. The box set, "multiple-album, CD or cassette issue of the work of an artist" is attested by 1955.
box (n.2.): "a blow," c. 1300, of uncertain origin, possibly related to Middle Dutch boke, Middle High German buc, and Danish bask, all meaning "a blow," perhaps imitative.
box (v.1): "to put into storage, put into a box," mid-15c., from box (n.1). Related: Boxed; boxing.
box (v.2): "to beat or whip," late 14c., from box (n.2). Meaning "to fight with the fists" is from 1560s. Related: Boxed; boxing.

词态变化

复数 boxes;
第三人称单数 boxes;
过去式 boxed;
过去分词 boxed;
现在分词 boxing;

权威造句

1. Patterson pointed toward a plain cardboard box beneath a long wooden table.: 帕特森指着长木桌下的一个普通的纸板箱。

2. Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.: 马丁内斯表示了对选举获胜的信心。

3. The film opened to healthy box office receipts before rapidly falling off.: 这部影片的票房收入开始的时候持续上涨，但是后来急剧下降。

4. I had to box Max"s ears to get him to hush.: 我不得不打了马克斯一耳光让他闭嘴。

5. The original script was written with the idiot box in mind.: 剧本当初就是为电视而写的。

近反义词

case

casket

chest

coffer

coffin

pack

encase

wrap

hit

相似短语

box in 如盒子一般地围起来,不让...通过

be in the box 【法】出庭

compatibility box (DOS box) 兼容框

check box n.[计]复选框

color box n. 颜料盒

fare box 车票箱

tumbling box n. 滚筒

base box 标准盒

batch box 配料量斗，分批箱，量斗

bed box 台座

单词分析

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