单词 | shuck |
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音标 | [ʃʌk] |
解释 | n.(植物的)壳,夹;无用之物 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n.(植物的)壳,夹 (the outer covering of a nut)无用之物 (something of little value) |
字源 | shuck (v.) "to remove the shucks from," 1819, from or related to shuck (n.). Related: Shucked; shucking. Many extended senses are from the notion of "stripping" an ear of corn, or from the capers associated with husking frolics; such as "to strip (off) one's clothes" (1848) and "to deceive, swindle, cheat, fool" (1959); phrase shucking and jiving "fooling, deceiving" is suggested from 1966, in U.S. black English, but compare shuck (v.) a slang term among "cool musicians" for "to improvise chords, especially to a piece of music one does not know" (1957), and shuck (n.) "a theft or fraud," in use by 1950s among U.S. blacks. [B]lack senses probably fr[om] the fact that black slaves sang and shouted gleefully during corn-shucking season, and this behavior, along with lying and teasing, became a part of the protective and evasive behavior normally adopted towards white people in "traditional" race relations; the sense of "swindle" is perhaps related to the mid-1800s term to be shucked out, "be defeated, be denied victory," which suggests that the notion of stripping someone as an ear of corn is stripped may be basic in the semantics. ["Dictionary of American Slang"] shuck (n.) "husk, pod, shell," 1670s, of unknown origin. Compare shuck (v.). Later used in reference to the shells of oysters and clams (1872). Figurative as a type of something worthless from 1836. |
不择手段背单词 | v. 剥去...的外皮或外壳; n (牡蛎、豌豆或山胡桃等的)外壳, 荚 【记】读: 杀壳! 效果和剥去...的外皮或外壳一样 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】shell + husk 外壳;音:虾壳 |
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