| 正面 | 4655.plunge 英 [plʌn(d)ʒ]美 [plʌndʒ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. 谐音“扑浪急、扑浪季”---扑浪、跳水的好季节。2. plumb => plunge: 该词原先的含义是测试水深的铅锤或者用铅锤将渔网拉入水中。n. 投入;跳进vi. 突然地下降;投入;陷入;跳进vt. 使陷入;使投入;使插入 例句: 1. Take the opportunity to plunge yourself into your career.抓住机会投身到事业中去。 plunge 插入,猛倾,暴跌,前冲,跳水来自古法语plongier,浸入,沉入,跳水,来自拉丁语plumbum,铅,铅球,词源同plumb.其 原义为用铅垂线测水深,引申词义前冲,跳水,比喻义猛倾,暴跌,比较plummet. plungeplunge: see plumbplunge (v.)late 14c., "to put or thrust violently into," also intransitive, from Old French plongier "plunge, sink into; plunge into, dive in" (mid-12c., Modern French plonger), from Vulgar Latin *plumbicare "to heave the lead," from Latin plumbum "lead" (see plumb (n.)). Original notion perhaps is of a sounding lead or a fishing net weighted with lead. Related: Plunged; plunging. Plunging neckline attested from 1949.plunge (n.)c. 1400, "deep pool," from plunge (v.). From late 15c. as "a sudden pitch forward;" meaning "act of plunging" is from 1711. Figurative use in take the plunge "commit oneself" is from 1845, from earlier noun sense of "point of being in trouble or danger" (1530s)." |
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