paddle

• n. 划桨；明轮翼
• vt. 拌；搅；用桨划
• vi. 划桨；戏水；涉水

来自拉丁语padela,小铲子，进一步来自patella,小盘子，来自patina的小词形式，词源同pan,patella.后引申词义船桨。

来自pad,蹚水，-le,表反复。

1. small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games

2. a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel

3. an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board

4. a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat

paddle (n.)

c. 1400, padell "small spade," from Medieval Latin padela, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin patella "small pan, little dish, plate," diminutive of patina (see pan (n.)).

Meaning "short oar with a wide blade" is from 1620s. As an instrument used for beating clothes (and slaves, and schoolboys), it is recorded from 1828, American English. Paddle-ball attested from 1935.

paddle (v.1)

"to dabble, wade in water," 1520s, probably cognate with Low German paddeln "tramp about," frequentative of padjen "to tramp, to run in short steps," from pad (v.). Related: Paddled; paddling. Meaning "to move in water by means of paddles" is a different word (see paddle (v.3)).

paddle (v.2)

"to beat with a paddle, spank," 1856, from paddle (n.). Related: Paddled; paddling.

paddle (v.3)

"to move in water by means of paddles," 1670s, from paddle (n.). To paddle one's (own) canoe "do for oneself" is from 1828.

The floor-to-ceiling windows of his company's offices overlook Songdo Central Park, with a canal full of kayaks and paddle boats.

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Let's go for a paddle.

咱们去玩水吧。

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We paddled downstream for about a mile.

我们划船顺流而下约一英里。

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We paddled the canoe along the coast.

我们划着独木舟沿海岸而行。

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The children have gone paddling .

孩子们戏水去了。

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We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.

我们也许可以用桨把自己推过去。

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...a piece of driftwood which he used as a paddle.

他用作桨使的一块浮木

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...the skills you will use to paddle the canoe.

划独木舟要用到的技术

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...paddling around the South Pacific in a kayak.

划着皮划子在南太平洋游弋

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Wear sandals when you paddle.

玩水的时候穿上凉鞋。

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...a lovely little stream that you can paddle in.

能够在其中戏水的美丽的小溪

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The drying process of hollow blade paddle dryer is investigated in this paper.

本文研究了空心桨叶干燥机的干燥过程.

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Each comb plate is a simple rectangular paddle composed of cilia.

每个栉板都是纤毛组成的矩形的桨.

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You control a paddle that hits balls against the wall.

你操纵开关使小球对着墙击去.

辞典例句

Express paddle boats fled to a place of safety bars.

快划着小船逃到安全的地方吧.

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To propel ( a watercraft ) with paddles or a paddle.

用浆划动用船桨推动 ( 船只 )

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The individual shall register and get the bidding paddle before the actual sale.

个人经过身份登记,取得竞买号牌等必要手续后,即具有竞买资格.

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She brought her kids for a paddle in the pool.

她带孩子到池子里戏水.

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The Chinese Communist began to explore the diplomatic practice that paddle one's own canoe 1944.

1944年中国共产党开始探索独立自主的外交实践.

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Since her parents died early, she had to paddle her own canoe even in her teens.

因父母早亡, 她十几几岁的时候就不得不自谋杀生计.

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Childhood seems a paddle, a flash, and many touching fairy tale came out.

童年好像一把船桨, 一晃, 许多动人的童话,出来了.

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We went to the Kayaking shed and learned how to paddle.

我们到皮艇棚学习如何划桨.

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The children went for a paddle.

孩子们涉水玩去了.

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They paddle their boat up the river.

他们划着小船往上游去了.

辞典例句

Each man had a paddle for an hour and then a rest.

每个人划了一小时桨,然后休息.

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Yes. That's this best trick. That's why he used the penhold grip on his paddle.

是的,那是他最好的策略, 那就是为什么他在拿球拍时使用直拍.

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Morley: Darn! Guess I'm up the creek without a paddle now.

莫理: 该死! 我现在是巧妇难为无米之炊了.

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As for the paddle shift gearbox, it's a cracker.

至于换档变速箱, 这是一个饼干.

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A wooden paddle, as one used in table tennis.

乒乓球拍:一种木制球拍, 如乒乓球拍.

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