hack

英 [hæk] 美[hæk]
  • n. 砍,劈;出租马车
  • vt. 砍;出租
  • vi. 砍
  • n. (Hack)人名;(英、西、芬、阿拉伯、毛里求)哈克;(法)阿克

常用词汇中低频词GRETEM8CET6+

词态变化


复数: hacks;第三人称单数: hacks;过去式: hacked;过去分词: hacked;现在分词: hacking;

助记提示


hack............还 砍..................劈;砍

中文词源


hack 砍,劈,非法侵入计算机

来自PIE*keg,砍,劈,钩,词源同hook,haggle,hew.引申词义侵入别人的计算机,即黑掉。

hack 供人骑的马,出租车,雇佣文人

缩写自Hackney,伦敦附近地名,在13世纪开始就成为著名的老马养殖场,提供老马或马车出租,后引申词义妓女,苦力,雇佣文人等。

英英释意


1. one who works hard at boring tasks
2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
3. a mediocre and disdained writer
4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
6. an old or over-worked horse
7. a horse kept for hire
8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

英文词源


hack
hack: English has two distinct words hack. By far the older, ‘cut savagely or randomly’ [OE], goes back via Old English haccian to a prehistoric West Germanic *khak-, also reproduced in German hacken and Dutch hakken. It perhaps originated in imitation of the sound of chopping. Hack ‘worn-out horse’ [17] is short for hackney (as in hackney carriage), a word in use since the 14th century in connection with hired horses.

It is thought that this may be an adaptation of the name of Hackney, now an inner-London borough but once a village on the northeastern outskirts of the capital where horses were raised before being taken into the city for sale or hire. Most rented horses being past their best from long and probably ill usage, hackney came to mean ‘broken-down horse’ and hence in general ‘drudge’.

This quickly became respecified to ‘someone who writes for hire, and hence unimaginatively’, which influenced the development of hackneyed ‘trite’ [18]. The modern sense of hacker, ‘someone who gains unauthorized access to computer records’, comes from a slightly earlier ‘one who works like a hack – that is, very hard – at writing and experimenting with software’.

hack (v.1)
"to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows," c. 1200, from verb found in stem of Old English tohaccian "hack to pieces," from West Germanic *hakkon (cognates: Old Frisian hackia "to chop or hack," Dutch hakken, Old High German hacchon, German hacken), from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (see hook (n.)). Perhaps influenced by Old Norse höggva "to hew, cut, strike, smite" (which is unrelated, from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike;" see hew). Slang sense of "cope with" (as in can't hack it) is first recorded in American English 1955, with a sense of "get through by some effort," as a jungle (phrase hack after "keep working away at" is attested from late 14c.). To hack around "waste time" is U.S. slang, by 1955, perhaps originally of golfers or cabbies. Related: Hacked; hacking.
hack (n.2)
"person hired to do routine work," c. 1700, ultimately short for hackney "an ordinary horse, horse for general service (especially for driving or riding, as opposed to war, hunting, or hauling)," c. 1300. This word is probably from the place name Hackney, Middlesex. Apparently nags were raised on the pastureland there in early medieval times. Extended sense of "horse for hire" (late 14c.) led naturally to "broken-down nag," and also "prostitute" (1570s) and "a drudge" (1540s), especially a literary one, one who writes according to direction or demand. Sense of "carriage for hire" (1704) led to modern slang for "taxicab." As an adjective, 1734, from the noun. Hack writer is first recorded 1826, though hackney writer is at least 50 years earlier. Hack-work is recorded from 1851.
hack (v.2)
"illegally enter a computer system," by 1984; apparently a back-formation from hacker. Related: Hacked; hacking (1975 in this sense). Earlier verb senses were "to make commonplace" (1745), "make common by everyday use" (1590s), "use (a horse) for ordinary riding" (1560s), all from hack (n.2).
hack (n.1)
"tool for chopping," early 14c., from hack (v.1); cognates: Danish hakke "mattock," German Hacke "pickax, hatchet, hoe." Meaning "a cut, notch" is from 1570s. Meaning "an act of cutting" is from 1836; figurative sense of "a try, an attempt" is first attested 1898.
hack (v.3)
"to cough with a short, dry cough," 1802, perhaps from hack (v.1) on the notion of being done with difficulty, or else imitative.
hack (adj.)
"hired, mercenary," 1812, from hack (n.2).
hack (n.3)
"a short, hard cough," 1885, from hack (v.3).

同义词辨析


chop, cut, hack

这些动词均有"切,砍"之意。

chop: 指用刀斧连续猛力砍某物,以便砍断、切碎。

cut: 普通用词,使用广泛。指用带刃工具的切、割、砍等的行动。

hack: 指粗暴地乱剪、乱砍、乱劈。

考试真题


A full 18 percent have even returned devices until they feel they can get safer guarantees against having their sensitive information hacked.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

This same absence of moral purpose was wounding companies such as News International ,shield thought ,making it more likely that it would lose its way as it had with widespread illegal telephone hacking.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge – the wider issue of dearth of integrity still st

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

词组搭配


hacking cough

a short, dry, frequent cough

短促频繁的干咳

at hack

(of a young hawk) given partial liberty but not yet allowed to hunt for itself

(雏鹰)在饲养训练中(指有一定的自由,但不准自出觅食)

hack around

(N. Amer.)pass one's time idly or with no definite purpose

(北美)混日子,闲逛,虚度光阴

hack someone off

(informal)annoy or infuriate someone

(非正式)使某人生气,激怒某人

实用场景例句


a party hack
政党杂务人员

牛津词典

Lots of people leave this job because they can't hack it.
很多人由于应付不了这项工作而放弃了。

牛津词典

They had hacked secret data.
他们窃取了保密数据。

牛津词典

He hacked into the bank's computer.
他侵入了这家银行的计算机。

牛津词典

He hacked the ball away.
他把球一脚踢开。

牛津词典

We hacked away at the bushes.
我们劈开灌木丛。

牛津词典

We had to hack our way through the jungle.
我们不得不在丛林中辟路穿行。

牛津词典

They were hacked to death as they tried to escape.
他们企图逃走时被砍死了。

牛津词典

I hacked the dead branches off.
我把枯树枝砍掉了。

牛津词典

Smith tries to convince them that he can hack it as a police chief.
史密斯试图让他们相信,作为警长自己能应付得了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

You have to be strong and confident and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it...
你必须坚强自信,千万不要给人留下丝毫你应付不来的印象。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The children could be seen hacking across the hillside on their ponies.
可以看到孩子们正骑着小马穿过山坡。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The saboteurs had demanded money in return for revealing how they hacked into the systems.
那些故意破坏者索要钱财,以作为透露自己是如何非法进入该电脑系统的交换条件。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Far too many party hacks from the old days still hold influential jobs.
太多以前的老党棍依然身居要职。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a hack writer of cheap romances.
撰写庸俗的爱情故事的雇佣文人

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...tabloid hacks, always eager to find victims in order to sell newspapers.
为了使报纸好卖而总是急于寻找牺牲品的小报蹩脚记者们

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He hacked away at the story, eliminating one character entirely.
他大幅缩短了这篇故事,将其中一个人物彻底砍掉了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle.
我们负责在丛林中开路。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Some were hacked to death with machetes...
有些人被大砍刀砍死。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

An armed gang barged onto the train and began hacking and shooting anyone in sight...
一伙持械歹徒闯上火车,开始见人就砍、举枪便射。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Wanna be a hacker and hack Google? Go to Lanxiang!
一则留言说,想成为黑客、黑掉谷歌?

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A hired hack an'a free issue nigger!
一辆野鸡车和一个刚刚冒出来的黑鬼!

飘(部分)

The main techniques are twining and wrapping head, thrust, hack , uppercut, cloud and drag.
缠头过脑 、 刺刀 、 劈刀、撩刀 、 云刀、带刀.

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Hack together some bad code that's functional but hairy and you're building up debt.
东拼西凑一些能用但让人汗毛直竖的编码,你就是在增加债务.

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