中文词源
horseshoe 马蹄铁
horse,马，shoe,鞋。即马蹄铁，在民间传说中为带来好运的吉祥物。
英语词源
- horseshoe (n.)
- late 14c. (early 13c. as a proper name), from horse (n.) + shoe (n.). Horseshoes as another name for the game of quoits, attested by 1822.
HORSE-SHOES, the game of coits, or quoits--because sometimes actually played with horse-shoes. [John Trotter Brockett, "A Glossary of North Country Words," 1829]
The belief that finding a horseshoe by chance is lucky is attested from late 14c., and the practice of nailing one above a doorway to prevent a witch entering therein was common in London down to c. 1800. Of a type of bend in a river, 1770, American English. As a type of crab, from 1775.
权威例句
- 1. Ferries churn the waters of Howe Sound from Langdale to Horseshoe Bay.
- 渡船搅起豪湾的海水，从兰代尔驶向霍斯舒湾。
- 2. Bend the bar into a horseshoe.
- 把铁条弯成马蹄形。
- 3. a horseshoe bend in the river
- 河道中的马蹄形弯曲
- 4. The blacksmith is forging the horseshoe.
- 铁匠正在打造马蹄铁.
- 5. The blacksmith shaped a horseshoe on his anvil.
- 铁匠在他的铁砧上打出一个马蹄形.
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