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bucket >n.圆桶 bucket (n.) mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from a Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic *buh- (cognates: Dutch buik, Old High German buh, German Bauch "belly"), possibly from a variant of PIE root *beu-, *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see bull (n.2)).Kick the bucket "to die" (1785) perhaps is from unrelated Old French buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging after standing on an upturned bucket (but Farmer calls attention to bucket "a Norfolk term for a pulley"). 【记】类basket的东西；buck

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['bʌkit] 【英】 n. 圆桶(round open container);v. 雨倾盆而下(rain pour down heavily)【例】 The rain bucketed down all afternoon . n. 圆桶 = container, 一桶之量; [俚]屁股; 篮下禁区; v 雨倾盆而下【例】One bucket of paint will be enough for the wall 一桶油漆足够刷墙用了. The rain was coming down in buckets 天下着倾盆大雨.

单词	bucket
音标	['bʌkit]
解释	>n.圆桶
红宝书	【英】 n. 圆桶(round open container);v. 雨倾盆而下(rain pour down heavily) 【例】 The rain bucketed down all afternoon .
字源	bucket (n.) mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from a Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic buh- (cognates: Dutch buik, Old High German buh, German Bauch "belly"), possibly from a variant of PIE root beu-, *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see bull (n.2)). Kick the bucket "to die" (1785) perhaps is from unrelated Old French buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging after standing on an upturned bucket (but Farmer calls attention to bucket "a Norfolk term for a pulley").
不择手段背单词	n. 圆桶 = container, 一桶之量; [俚]屁股; 篮下禁区; v 雨倾盆而下【例】One bucket of paint will be enough for the wall 一桶油漆足够刷墙用了. The rain was coming down in buckets 天下着倾盆大雨.
趣味全助记	【记】类basket的东西；buck

Bucket Buquet N Rain French Germanic German Bʌkit