derrick

英 ['der?k] 美['d?r?k]

TEM8暢通詞匯

復數:?derricks;

1. 人名“德里克”轉義而來。

derrick 轉臂超重機，鉆塔

來自17世紀初期倫敦泰伯恩刑場執行絞刑的劊子手姓氏Derrick，后通用化作為絞刑架的代稱，現詞義轉臂起重機因形似絞刑架而得名。比較guillotine.

derrick: derrick: [16] Around the end of the 16th century there was a famous Tyburn hangman called Derick. His name came to be used as a personification of hangmen in general, and subsequently as a metaphor for the ‘gallows’. Gradually, however, these macabre associations were lost, and by the 18th century derrick had progressed in meaning to ‘hoisting apparatus’.
derrick (n.): c. 1600, originally "hangman," then "a gallows," then "hoist, crane" (1727), from surname of a hangman at Tyburn gallows, London, c. 1606-1608, often referred to in contemporary theater. The name represents a late borrowing from the Low Countries (compare Dutch Diederik) of Old High German Theodric (see Dietrich).

2. Magnus Derrick had formally and definitely refused his adherence to the scheme.: 曼克奈斯·臺力克正式干脆表示,不愿跟這活動有什么關系.

3. Derrick and I have been laying out the system of irrigating ditches.: 德里克跟我在一起修建那個灌溉網.

4. Unlike Harran Derrick, he seemed more of a character than a type.: 他跟哈倫·臺力克不一樣,與其說他是個典型,還不如說他是個很特殊的人.

5. It might be as well to consult Magnus and Mrs. Derrick.: 還是找曼克奈斯和臺力克太太去商量吧.