bucket
英 ['bʌkɪt]
美['bʌkɪt]
- n. 桶，水桶；铲斗；一桶的量
- v. 倾盆而下；颠簸着行进
- n. (Bucket)人名；(德)布克特
词态变化
复数: buckets;
中文词源
bucket 桶
来自PIE *bheu, 膨胀，鼓起来。词源同boast.
英英释意
- 1. a roughly cylindrical that is vessel open at the top
- 2. the quantity contained in a bucket
英文词源
- bucket
- bucket: [13] We first encounter bucket in the Anglo-Norman forms buket and buquet. It is not entirely clear where this came from, but it may be a derivative of Old English būc. The primary underlying sense of this was ‘something bulging or swelling’, and hence it meant not only ‘jug’ but also ‘belly’ (related are German bauch and Swedish buk ‘paunch’). It survived dialectally into modern English as bowk, meaning ‘milkpail’ and ‘large tub used in coal mines’. The bucket of ‘kick the bucket’ was originally a beam from from which slaughtered animals were hung; it is probably a separate word, from Old French buquet ‘balance’.
- bucket (n.)
- mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from Frankish or some other 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").
考试真题
- Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.
2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
词组搭配
a drop in the bucket
An insufficient or inconsequential amount in comparison with what is required.
沧海一粟：与所需数量相比不足或不合理的
实用场景例句
- a plastic bucket
- 塑料桶
牛津词典
- (British English)They were playing on the beach with their buckets and spades .
- 他们带着桶和铲子在沙滩上玩。
牛津词典
- two buckets/bucketfuls of water
- 两桶水
牛津词典
- They used to drink tea by the bucket/bucketful (= in large quantities) .
- 他们过去喝很多茶。
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- To succeed in show business, you need buckets of confidence.
- 要想在演艺界干出名堂，就得有十足的信心。
牛津词典
- We wept buckets .
- 我们泪如泉涌。
牛津词典
- He was sweating buckets by the end of the race.
- 跑到终点时他汗流浃背。
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- The rain was coming down in buckets (= it was raining very heavily) .
- 下着瓢泼大雨。
牛津词典
- It's bucketing down.
- 大雨倾盆。
牛津词典
- They didn't exactly sell bucket-loads of records the first time around.
- 其实，他们第一次唱片卖得并不很多。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He was weeping buckets...
- 他正哭得稀里哗啦的。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The rain was still coming down in buckets when we went back out.
- 我们回去时，外面的倾盆大雨仍然下个不停。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They obviously have buckets of confidence...
- 很明显，他们信心十足。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- We drew water in a bucket from the well outside the door...
- 我们用一个吊桶从门外的井中打水。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The girls happily played in the sand and sea with buckets and spades.
- 女孩们带着铲子和小桶在沙滩上快活地玩耍。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- For crying in the bucket, what thing has he done now?
- 天啊, 他到底干了什么事?
期刊摘选
- Lisa : We can share a large bucket.
- 我们可以买一桶大的一起吃.
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- Cons shuffle past , dropping slips of paper into a bucket.
- 犯人们纷纷地把纸条放入铁桶中.
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- Supply is mainly composed of the sink, water water bucket roll and roll.
- 供水装置主要由水槽 、 水斗辊和传水辊组成.
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- The paper gives anexamination and repair of the bucket and measures for protection against erosion.
- 文中还介绍了消力戽的检修及改造,提出了防止蚀损及蚀损补修措施.
期刊摘选
- The bottom of the bucket has worn through after all this time.
- 经过这么长时间,这只桶的底部终于磨穿了.
《简明英汉词典》
- She poured a bucket of water over me.
- 她把一桶水倒在我身上.
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- Facer has fainted; this bucket of water should fetch him round.
- 费塞昏过去了, 这桶水可以使他苏醒过来.
《简明英汉词典》
- When you've emptied the water out, please clean the bucket.
- 把水倒光后, 清洗一下水桶.
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- The hotel cleaner entered carrying a bucket and a mop.
- 旅馆清洁工拿着水桶和拖把进来.
《简明英汉词典》
- But for your magic hand, I'd have long kicked the bucket.
- 要不是你妙手回春, 我早就见阎王了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Water splashed into the bucket from the tap.
- 水从龙头里喷溅着注入水池.
《简明英汉词典》
- If you must spit at all, please spit in the bucket provided.
- 如果你非吐不可, 就请吐到备好的痰桶里.
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- The old man fell against the bucket.
- 那老人被水桶绊倒了.
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