| 正面 | 6113.tattoo 英 [tæ'tuː]美 [tæ'tu]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： tatoo：他涂。他用针刺的方法涂在身上的图案——文身。n. 纹身vt. 刺花纹于vi. 刺花样 例句： 1. He has a tattoo on the back of his hand.他手臂上有一文刺. tattoo 文身，刺青由 18 世纪英国著名航海家库克船长引入英国，来自太平洋小岛某土著语言，其原义可能为 在脸上打的标记或以示惩罚的记号，后引申词义文身，刺青。比较《水浒传》。 tattootattoo: English has two words tattoo. The older, ‘military display’ [17], was borrowed from a Dutch word, taptoe, that means literally ‘tap to’, that is, ‘shut the tap’ – a signal to shut off the taps of the beer barrels at closing time in the taverns. By the time it reached English it was being used for a ‘drum beat signalling the time for soldiers to return to their quarters at night’, and in the 18th century it was applied to a ‘military display based on this’. The tattoo on the skin [18] was borrowed from a Polynesian language, such as Tahitian (tatau) or Marquesan (ta-tu).=> taptattoo (v.)"mark the skin with pigment," 1769, tattow, from tattoo (n.2). Related: Tattooed; tattooing. Thackeray has tattooage.tattoo (n.1)"signal calling soldiers or sailors to quarters at night," 1680s, earlier tap-to (1640s), from Dutch taptoe, from tap "faucet of a cask" (see tap (n.1)) + toe "shut, to," from Proto-Germanic *to (see to (prep.)). "So called because police formerly visited taverns in the evening to shut off the taps of casks" [Barnhart]. In 17c. Dutch the phrase apparently was used with a transferred or figurative sense "say no more." In English, transferred sense of "drumbeat" is recorded from 1755. Hence, Devil's tattoo "action of idly drumming fingers in irritation or impatience" (1803).tattoo (n.2)"pigment design in skin," 1769 (noun and verb, both first attested in writing of Capt. Cook), from a Polynesian noun (such as Tahitian and Samoan tatau, Marquesan tatu "puncture, mark made on skin"). Century Dictionary (1902) describes them as found on sailors and uncivilized people or as a sentence of punishment." |