| 单词 | squash |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [skwɔʃ] |
| 解释 | v.压碎，挤压；n.南瓜 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 v.压碎，挤压(to press or crush) 【例】 Some of the berries at bottom have been squashed. |
| 字源 | squash (v.) "to crush, squeeze," early 14c., squachen, from Old French esquasser, escasser "to crush, shatter, destroy, break," from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + quassare "to shatter" (see quash "to crush"). Related: Squashed; squashing. squash (n.1) gourd fruit, 1640s, shortened borrowing from Narraganset (Algonquian) askutasquash, literally "the things that may be eaten raw," from askut "green, raw, uncooked" + asquash "eaten," in which the -ash is a plural affix (compare succotash). squash (n.2) 1610s, "act of squashing," from squash (v.). The racket game called by that name 1899; earlier (1886) it was the name of the soft rubber ball used in it. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】crush 压碎；squeeze 压榨, 挤 (a=i=ee, z=s)；音：丝瓜食，吃的丝瓜，近于南瓜等瓜 【相关】quash 取消 |
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