fig

• n. 无花果；无花果树；少许，一些；无价值的东西；服装
• vt. 打扮；使马跑快

来自拉丁语ficus, 无花果树。来自希伯来闪语。

1. a diagram or picture illustrating textual material;

"the area covered can be seen from Figure 2"

2. Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

3. fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

fig

fig: English has two words fig. Fig the fruit [13] comes via Old French figue, Provençal figua, and Vulgar Latin *fica from Latin ficus. This, together with its Greek relative súkon (source of English sycamore and sycophant), came from a pre-Indo-European language of the Mediterranean area, possibly Semitic. Greek súkon was, and modern Italian fica (a relative of fico ‘fig’) still is, used for ‘cunt’, apparently in reference to the appearance of a ripe fig when opened.

English adopted the term in the 16th and 17th centuries as fig, fico, or figo, signifying an ‘indecent gesture made by putting the thumb between two fingers or into the mouth’ (‘The figo for thee then!’ says Pistol to the disguised king in Shakespeare’s Henry V 1599). The now little used fig ‘dress, array’ [19], as in ‘in full fig’, probably comes from an earlier, now obsolete feague, which in turn was very likely borrowed from German fegen ‘polish’.

This was a derivative of the same prehistoric Germanic base, *feg-, as produced English fake.
=> sycamore, sycophant; fake

fig (n.1)

early 13c., from Old French figue "fig" (12c.), from Old Provençal figa, from Vulgar Latin *fica, corresponding to Latin ficus "fig tree, fig," which, with Greek sykon, Armenian t'uz is "prob. fr. a common Mediterranean source" [Buck], possibly a Semitic one (compare Phoenician pagh "half-ripe fig"). A reborrowing of a word that had been taken directly from Latin as Old English fic "fig, fig-tree."

The insulting sense of the word in Shakespeare, etc. (A fig for ...) is 1570s (in 17c. sometimes in Italian form fico), in part from fig as "small, valueless thing," but also from Greek and Italian use of their versions of the word as slang for "vulva," apparently because of how a ripe fig looks when split open [Rawson, Weekley]. Giving the fig (Old French faire la figue, Spanish dar la higa) was an indecent gesture of ancient provenance, made by putting the thumb between two fingers or into the mouth, with the intended effect of the modern gesture of "flipping the bird" (see bird (n.3)). Also compare sycophant.

Use of fig leaf in figurative sense of "flimsy disguise" (1550s) is from Gen. iii:7. Fig-faun translates Latin faunus ficarius (Jer. l:39).

fig (n.2)

"dress, equipment," 1823, in phrase in full fig; hence "condition, state of preparedness" (1883). Said to be an abbreviation of figure (n.), perhaps from the abbreviation of that word in plate illustrations in books, etc. According to others, from the fig leaves of Adam and Eve. Related: Figgery.

a fig tree

无花果树

牛津词典

I do not give a fig what society thinks.

我一点儿也不在乎社会怎么想。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Fig. 1 . The average number of foragers per minute on a blooming plum during daytime.

图一开花李树上平均每天不同时间之访花昆虫数量.

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The line array appears as FIG . 2 D when viewed downwards along line parallel to line 36.

当沿着一条平行于直线36的线向下观察时,线性阵列如图2D所示.

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Fig 3 Excitation and emission spectra of indoles and its derivative in DMSO.

图3吲哚及其衍生物的DMSO溶液的激发和发射光谱.

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The top of Fig. 5 shows the clearance values during navigation.

图5的顶部表示(机器人)导航时的间隙值.

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FIG. 9 E illustrates another feature of the line array.

图 9E 示出了线性阵列的另一特征.

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The operation of the embodiment of fig . 2 is identical to that of fig .1.

图2的工作原理与图1相同.

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Vfo step indicator. Displays the currently selected VFO setp . ( The Fig . Shows 100 Hz step selected ).

可变频率震荡器 ( 拨号频率 ) 步长指示, 显示当前选择的vfo步长.

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The first real boxer was a heavyweight champion James Fig , in 1719.

第一个真正的拳击手是1719年的重量级冠军詹姆斯·菲格.

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Fig . 2 . Loss of cortical grayterm infant with hypoxic ischemic brain injury due to sepsis.

图2因败血症导致的缺血缺氧患儿颅脑超声图像,显示灰白质之间的分界消失.

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Fig . 3 Osteophyte formed around prothesis, but no effect on joint activities 1 year after operation.

图3. 术后1年照片,假体周围骨赘形成, 对关节活动无影响.

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Make the new layer and draw a line as shown fig below.

使新的层和划清界限,显示图如下.

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Fig . 1 Effect of heavy metals on chlorophyll content in leaves of K . candel.

图1重金属污水对秋幼苗中叶绿素含量的影响.

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Giant strangler fig tree roots embrace the crumbling Ta Prohm temple at Angkor.

巨大的勒颈无花果树根环抱着吴哥窟破碎的塔布笼寺.

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Fig. 3: Set up rules for special application software and attacks.

图三、特殊应用程式及攻击规则设定.

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The relationship between the different forms of bearing instability is illustrated in Fig. 11.7.

轴承不稳定性的各种形式之间的关系如图11.7所示.

辞典例句

The young mother in the yard, planted a fig tree.

年轻的妈妈在院子里栽种了一棵无花果树.

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Rules that govern gymnastics scoring are made by FIG.

体操比赛评分规则由国际体操联合会制订.

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We can quantify these contributions with reference to Fig . 5.

我们可以用图5中的参数来定量地表示这些因素的影响.

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Fig 1 is the system block diagram of 3 machine excitation system.

图一是3机励磁系统的系统框图.

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I don't give a fig about him!

我一点儿也不在乎他!

《简明英汉词典》

A beautiful fig tree that had stood in their yard was leafless and barren.

原来他们院子里那棵漂亮的无花果树已不长一片树叶，不挂一个果子。

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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.

这项协议不过是块遮羞布而已，用来掩盖对自然景观的持续破坏。

柯林斯例句

Compare the two illustrations in Fig 60.

比较图60中的两幅插图。

柯林斯例句