musket

英 ['m?sk?t] 美['m?sk?t]

GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?muskets;

1. 三個火槍手(Three Musketeers) => musket.

musket 火槍，毛瑟槍

來自中古法語mousquette,雀鷹，來自拉丁語musca,蚊子，蒼蠅，詞源同midge,mosquito.因高飛的鷹看起來如同一只蚊子而得名。后用這種雀鷹來命名17，18世紀發明的一種新式火槍，即毛瑟槍。比較dragoon,dragon.

musket: musket: see mosquito
musket (n.): "firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks speckled when in flight. Early firearms often were given names of beasts (compare dragoon, also falcon, a kind of cannon mentioned by Hakluyt), and the equivalent word in Italian was used to mean "an arrow for a crossbow." The French word was borrowed earlier into English (early 15c.) in its literal sense of "sparrow-hawk."

2. Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket - barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.: 沒有一根樹枝擺動, 也沒有一支火槍在太陽照射下閃光,所以我們無法知道敵人的位置.

3. So some seconds passed, till suddenly Joyce whipped up his musket and fired.: 又過了幾秒鐘,突然, 喬伊斯端起槍來開了火.

4. While underneath, in a corner, were fowling piece, musket, and matchlock.: 下面, 角落里, 堆著鳥槍, 步槍, 和火繩槍.

5. In olden times one had to charge a musket before firing.: 以前必須先給步槍裝上火藥才能開槍.