| 正面 | 7915.pedal 英 ['ped(ə)l]美 ['pɛdl] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: bum:帮。这种人都是拉帮结伙的游荡——游手好闲的人;流浪汉。【记法】分解为:bu(布)+m(蒙),用布蒙起来 【联想】屁股当然要用布蒙起来,否则就是流氓vi. 踩踏板;骑车n. 踏板;脚蹬子vt. 骑(自行车);踩……的踏板adj. 脚的;脚踏的 例句: 1. The harder the brake pedal is pressed, the greater the car's deceleration.刹车踩得越用力,车子减速越猛。 pedal 自行车踏板来自PIE*ped,脚,词源同foot,biped.引申词义自行车踏板。 pedalpedal: [17] Pedal is one of a group of English words which go back to Latin pēs ‘foot’ or its Romance descendants (to which English foot is related). Others include impede [17], pedestal [16] (which comes via French from Old Italian piedestallo, a conflation of pie di stallo ‘foot of a stall’), pedestrian [18], pedicure [19], pedigree, and pedometer [18].=> foot, impede, pawn, pedestal, pedestrian, pedigreepedal (n.)1610s, "lever (on an organ) worked by foot," from French pédale "feet, trick with the feet," from Italian pedale "treadle, pedal," from Late Latin pedale "(thing) of the foot," neuter of Latin pedalis "of the foot," from pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Extended to various mechanical contrivances by 1789. Pedal steel guitar is from 1969. Pedal-pushers "type of women's trousers suitable for bicycling" is from 1944. When college girls took to riding bicycles in slacks, they first rolled up one trouser leg, then rolled up both. This whimsy has now produced a trim variety of long shorts, called "pedal pushers." ["Life," Aug. 28, 1944] pedal (v.)1866 of musical organs, 1888 of bicycles, from pedal (n.). Related: Pedaled; pedaling." |
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