gouge

英 [ga?d?; gu?d?] 美[ɡa?d?]

英英釋義實用場景例句

GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?gouges;第三人稱單數:?gouges;過去式:?gouged;過去分詞:?gouged;現在分詞:?gouging;

1. 諧音“溝溝、溝掘、高掘”。

gouge 鑿

來自拉丁語gulbia, 鑿。可能進一步來自PIE*skel, 砍，切，詞源同scale, coup. 字母l軟化u.

gouge: gouge: [15] Gouge may be of Celtic origin – a resemblance to forms such as Welsh gylf ‘beak’ and Cornish gilb ‘borer’ has been noted. But its earliest positively identifiable ancestor is late Latin gubia, whose Old French descendant gouge was borrowed by English.
gouge (n.): mid-14c., "chisel with a concave blade," from Old French gouge "a gouge" (14c.), from Late Latin gubia, alteration of gulbia "hollow beveled chisel," probably from Gaulish (compare Old Irish gulban "prick, prickle," Welsh gylfin "beak"). Meaning "an imposition, a cheat" is from 1845, American English colloquial.
gouge (v.): 1560s, "to cut with a gouge," from gouge (n.). Meaning "to force out with a gouge" (especially of the eyes, in fighting) attested by 1800. Meaning "to swindle" is American English colloquial from 1826 (implied in plural noun gougers). Related: Gouged; gouging.

1. He has accused her of threatening to gouge his eyes out.: 他指控她曾威脅要挖出他的眼睛。

2. She reached up and tried to gouge her attacker's eyes.: 她伸出手,想把攻擊者的眼睛摳出來.

4. To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.: 要做一個萬圣節燈籠, 你先得挖空這個南瓜.

5. In the Middle Ages, a favourite punishment was to gouge out a prisoner's eyes.: 在中世紀, 懲罰犯人最常用的辦法是剜眼睛.