正面 | 13014.peg 英 [peg]美 [pɛɡ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. perhaps from PIE *bak- "staff used as support". => eg: bacillus, bacterial.n. 钉;桩;借口;琴栓vt. 限制;钉木钉vi. 疾行;孜孜不倦地做某事adj. 越往下端越细的n. (Peg)人名;(英)佩格(女子教名 Margaret 的昵称);(西)佩格 例句: 1. To avoid damaging the tree, hammer a wooden peg into the hole.为了不毁坏树,用锤子将一个木栓钉进洞里。 peg 楔子,橛子,衣钩子来自中古英语pegge,来自Proto-Germanic*pag,桩子,楔子,来自PIE*bak,棍子,削尖的木桩,词源同bachelor,bacteria.引申词义橛子,衣钩子等。 peg (n.)mid-15c., from Middle Dutch pegge "peg," a common Low German word (Low German pigge "peg," German Pegel "gauge rod, watermark," Middle Dutch pegel "little knob used as a mark," Dutch peil "gauge, watermark, standard"), of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *bak- "staff used as support" (see bacillus). To be a square peg in a round hole "be inappropriate for one's situation" is attested from 1836; to take someone down a peg is from 1580s, but the original literal sense is uncertain (most of the likely candidates are not attested until centuries later). Peg leg "wooden leg" attested from 1765.peg (v.)"fasten with or as if on a peg," 1590s, from peg (n.). Slang sense of "identify, classify" first recorded 1920. Related: Pegged; pegging." |
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