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Squash Quassare Crush Latin 7029.Squash 英 Skwɒʃ]美 Skwɔʃ

正面 7029.squash
英 [skwɒʃ]美 [skwɔʃ]

背面
释义:
vt. 镇压;把…压扁;使沉默vi. 受挤压;发出挤压声;挤入n. 壁球;挤压;咯吱声;南瓜属植物;(英)果汁饮料
例句:
1. In the squash court his chief aim is to flatten me.在壁球场上他的主要目标就是击败我。

谐音“使垮兮,撕垮兮”。2. discussion, percussion => quatere 'shake, strike' => quassare 'shake to pieces, break' => cashier, quash, squash.3. "使去ash"
squash 粉碎,挤,压来自古法语 esquasser,来自通俗拉丁语*exquassare,粉碎,压碎,来自 ex-,向外,quassare,使粉 碎,词源同 quash.引申诸相关词义。
squashsquash: see quashsquash (v.)"to crush, squeeze," early 14c., squachen, from Old French esquasser, escasser "to crush, shatter, destroy, break," from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + quassare "to shatter" (see quash "to crush"). Related: Squashed; squashing.squash (n.1)gourd fruit, 1640s, shortened borrowing from Narraganset (Algonquian) askutasquash, literally "the things that may be eaten raw," from askut "green, raw, uncooked" + asquash "eaten," in which the -ash is a plural affix (compare succotash).squash (n.2)1610s, "act of squashing," from squash (v.). The racket game called by that name 1899; earlier (1886) it was the name of the soft rubber ball used in it."

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