| 正面 | 10962.caliber 英 美 ['kæləbɚ]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： caliber口径。calipers测径规。b与p字母通转。n. [军] 口径；才干；水准（等于calibre）；器量 例句： 1. They ought to win with players of such high caliber.他们选手的能力这样高,应该获胜. caliber 能力，口径来自阿拉伯语qalib, 模子，后指枪管口径。 caliber (n.)1560s, "degree of merit or importance," a figurative use from Middle French calibre (late 15c.), apparently ultimately from Arabic qalib "a mold for casting." Arabic also used the word in the sense "mold for casting bullets," which is the oldest literal meaning in English. Meaning "inside diameter of a gun barrel" is attested from 1580s. Barnhart remarks that Spanish calibre, Italian calibro "appear too late to act as intermediate forms" between the Arabic word and the French." |