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Wrap Meaning Danish Cover Wrapping Recorded 2103.Wrap 英

正面 2103.wrap
英 [ræp]美 [ræp]

背面
释义:
vt. 包;缠绕;隐藏;掩护vi. 包起来;缠绕;穿外衣n. 外套;围巾
例句:
1. NATO defense ministers wrap up their meeting in Brussels today.北约各国国防部长今天圆满结束了在布鲁塞尔的会议。

1. see wrench.
wrap 包裹词源有争议,来自PIE*werp,弯,转,缠绕,来自PIE*wer的扩大形式,弯,转,词源同versus,environment。引申词义裹住,包裹。
wrapwrap: [14] The antecedents of wrap are a mystery. It has no known Germanic relatives, although it is similar to North Frisian wrappe ‘stop up’ and Danish dialect vrappe ‘stuff’. A possible connection has been suggested with Greek ráptein ‘sew, patch’ and Lithuanian verpti ‘spin’.wrap (v.)early 14c., wrappen, "to wind (something around something else), cover (something), conceal; bind up, swaddle; fold (something) up or back on itself," of uncertain origin, perhaps via Scandinavian (compare Danish dialectal vravle "to wind"). Or perhaps a variant of lap (v.2). To wrap up "put an end to" is from 1926. Related: Wrapped; wrapping. Wrapping paper is from 1715.wrap (n.)late 15c., "fine cloth used as a cover or wrapping for bread," from wrap (v.). As a type of women's garment, recorded from 1827. Meaning "plastic film or cellophane used as a wrap" is from 1930. Meaning "end of a filming session" is attested from 1970. Meaning "sandwich material folded up in flour tortilla" is by 1998. Figurative phrase under wraps "in concealment" is recorded from 1939."

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