| 正面 | 3378.tunnel 英 ['tʌnl]美 ['tʌnl]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 音译“酷”----酷哦。2. 同源词：cold => cool.n. 隧道；坑道；洞穴通道vt. 挖；在…打开通道；在…挖掘隧道vi. 挖掘隧道；打开通道 例句： 1. The Channel Tunnel project is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe.英吉利海峡隧道是欧洲最大的土木工程。 tunnel 地道，隧道来自古法语 tonel,小桶，来自 tonne,木桶，水桶，词源同 tun.原指一种漏斗形的捕鸟网或烟囱， 后引申词义地道，隧道等。 tunneltunnel: see tontunnel (n.)early 15c., "funnel-shaped net for catching birds," from Middle French tonnelle "net," or tonel "cask," diminutive of Old French tonne "tun, cask for liquids," possibly from the same source as Old English tunne (see tun). Sense of "tube, pipe" (1540s) developed in English and led to sense of "underground passage" (1660s). This sense subsequently has been borrowed into French (1878). The earlier native word for this was mine (n.). Meaning "burrow of an animal" is from 1873. Tunnel vision first recorded 1912. The amusement park tunnel of love is attested from 1911 (in reference to New York's Luna Park). The figurative light at the end of the tunnel has been seen since 1882. The "Tunnel of Love," an attraction found at many amusement parks, has been responsible for a surprising number of proposals. In this and similar devices, couples are allowed to drift through dark or semi-dark underground caverns, usually in a boat or gondola borne on an artificial stream of water. ... Their dim interiors often give a bashful young man the opportunity to propose. ["The American Magazine," July 1922] tunnel (v.)"excavate underground," 1795, from tunnel (n.). From 1570s as "furnish with a tunnel." Related: Tunneled; tunneling." |