loo

• n. 厕所，洗手间；赌金；卢牌戏（一种纸牌赌博）
• vt. 使罚赌金
• n. (Loo)人名；(德、法)洛

俚语词，可能来自Waterloo,抽水马桶品牌，或直接来自拟声词，抽水马桶冲水声。

1. a toilet in England

loo

loo: [20] Loo presents one of the more celebrated puzzles of English etymology. Not the least of its problematical points is that there is no reliable evidence of its existence before the 1920s, whereas most of its suggested sources have a more dated air than that. Amongst them, the most widely touted is of course gardy loo!, a shout of warning (based on French gardez l’eau ‘beware of the water’) supposedly used when emptying chamber pots from upper-storey windows in the days before modern plumbing; but that is chronologically most unlikely.

Other possibilities are that it is short for Waterloo, which was a trade name for cast-iron lavatory cisterns in the early part of the 20th century (‘O yes, mon loup. How much cost? Waterloo. Watercloset’, James Joyce, Ulysses 1922), and that it comes from louvre, from the use of slatted screens for a makeshift lavatory. But perhaps the likeliest explanation is that it derives from French lieux d’aisances, literally ‘places of ease’, hence ‘lavatory’ (perhaps picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I).

loo (n.1)

"lavatory," 1940, but perhaps 1922, probably from French lieux d'aisances, "lavatory," literally "place of ease," picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I. Or possibly a pun on Waterloo, based on water closet.

loo (n.2)

type of card game, 1670s, short for lanterloo (1660s), from French lanturelu, originally (1620s) the refrain of a popular comic song; according to French sources the refrain expresses a mocking refusal or an evasive answer and was formed on the older word for a type of song chorus, turelure; apparently a jingling reduplication of loure "bagpipe" (perhaps from Latin lura "bag, purse").

From its primary signification -- a kind of bagpipe inflated from the mouth -- the word 'loure' came to mean an old dance, in slower rhythm than the gigue, generally in 6-4 time. As this was danced to the nasal tones of the 'loure,' the term 'loure' was gradually applied to any passage meant to be played in the style of the old bagpipe airs. ["Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians," London, 1906]

The refrain sometimes is met in English as turra-lurra.

She's gone to the loo.

她去盥洗室了。

牛津词典

Can I use your loo, please?

我可以用一下你的厕所吗？

牛津词典

I asked if I could go to the loo.

我问是否可以上厕所。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...public loos.

公厕

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The kernel function model selected by LOO estimation can approach the best value satisfactorily.

应用LOO估算 选择的核函数模型能够较好地退近最佳值.

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Sometimes if he's locked into a group he'll break only to eat and visit the loo.

有时候,如果他加入一个队伍,他只在吃饭和上厕所的时候才有片刻停息.

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Can I use your loo?

我可以用一下洗手间 吗 ?

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The loo table , however, did not appear.

不过这一回却没有看见有人打“禄牌”.

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Next to chatting come frequent visits to the vending machine and the loo.

排在聊天之后的是经常去售货机和厕所.

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In British English the toilet in private houses is called the lavatory, toilet, WC ( dated ), or loo ( informal )

在英式英语中,私人住宅中的厕所称为thelavatory, toilet, WC ( 已陈旧 ) 或loo ( 用于口语 ).

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I need to go to the loo.

我要上厕所.

辞典例句

That would result in more trips to the loo, which would also encroach on productivity.

那会让我多上厕所, 同样会影响生产力.

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Deputy Garman loo I do require a little more help.

(想去洗手间)我确实需要更多多点大家帮助.

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Meanwhile, this offered theory support for administration of the security investment fund loo.

同时, 这也为证券投资基金的治理提供了理论支持.

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The nanometer Ag film is made by MBE on the surface of Si ( lOO ).

采用MBE在Si ( 100 ) 衬底上制备Ag纳米薄膜.

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Nicky: Okay. But I got to go to loo first.

尼基: 好. 但我要先去一下洗手间.

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Deputy Garman : [ On needing to ingest the loo ] I do order a lowercase more help.

(想去洗手间 ) 我确实需要更多一点的帮助.

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It is lovely The loo is around the back , featuring all mod cons, I'm told.

很可爱的车站.听说绕到背后还有厕所, 很现代很方便.

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And when you have a lot of liquid, you need to go to the loo often.

我自己一会儿喝茶,一会儿喝健怡可乐,一会儿喝水, 每种液体都迫使我要沿着走廊走一趟.

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In space, a loo costs a lot.

在太空, 抽水马桶价值不菲.

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I had to rush to the loo to avoid an attack of hysterical giggles.

我不得不冲向卫生间，以免遭到别人的疯狂嘲笑。

辞典例句

She's gone to the loo.

她去盥洗室了。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The shop stocks everything from cigarettes to recycled loo paper.

商店货品齐全，从香烟到再生厕纸应有尽有。

柯林斯例句

I asked if I could go to the loo.

我问是否可以上厕所。

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