记忆方法
cab 出租汽车 “开吧！出租汽车”
中文词源
cab 出租车
来自拉丁词caper, 山羊，词源同caprice, cabriolet. 原指一种颠簸的马车，犹如蹦跳的山羊。
英语词源
- cab
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cab: [19] Cab is short for cabriolet, a term, borrowed from French, for a light horse-drawn carriage. It comes, via the French verb cabrioler, from Italian capriolare ‘jump in the air’, a derivative of capriolo ‘roebuck’, from Latin capreolus, a diminutive form of caper ‘goat’ (source of English caper ‘leap’ and Capricorn). The reason for its application to the carriage was that the vehicle’s suspension was so springy that it appeared to jump up and down as it went along. From the same source comes the cabriole leg ‘curved furniture leg’ [18], from its resemblance to the front leg of a capering animal.
=> cabriole, cabriolet, caper, capricorn - cab (n.)
- 1826, "light, horse-drawn carriage," shortening of cabriolet (1763), from French cabriolet (18c.), diminutive of cabrioler "leap, caper" (16c./17c.), from Italian capriolare "jump in the air," from capriola, properly "the leap of a kid," from Latin capreolus "wild goat, roebuck," from PIE *kap-ro- "he-goat, buck" (cognates: Old Irish gabor, Welsh gafr, Old English hæfr, Old Norse hafr "he-goat"). The carriages had springy suspensions.
Extended to hansoms and other types of carriages, then extended to similar-looking parts of locomotives (1851). Applied especially to public horse carriages, then to automobiles-for-hire (1899) when these began to replace them.
权威例句
- 1. The cab pulled up and the driver jumped out.
- 出租车减速停下，司机跳了出来。
- 2. A Luton van has additional load space over the driver's cab.
- 卢顿厢式货车的驾驶室上方有富余的装载空间。
- 3. I rode to Lily's in a cab.
- 我乘出租车去了莉莉家。
- 4. The cab was decked out with multi-coloured lights.
- 出租车上装饰了五颜六色的彩灯。
- 5. He climbed down from the cab.
- 他吃力地从出租车里爬了出来。
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