patch

• n. 眼罩；斑点；碎片；小块土地
• vt. 修补；解决；掩饰
• vi. 打补丁
• n. (Patch)人名；(英)帕奇

来自古法语pieche,来自piece方言变体，引申词义小块，斑点，补丁等。插入字母t,比较bake,batch.

1. a small contrasting part of something;

"a bald spot"

"a leopard's spots"

"a patch of clouds"

"patches of thin ice"

"a fleck of red"

2. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;

"a bean plot"

"a cabbage patch"

"a briar patch"

3. a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole

4. a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition;

"he was here for a little while"

"I need to rest for a piece"

"a spell of good weather"

"a patch of bad weather"

5. a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program

6. a connection intended to be used for a limited time

7. sewing or darning that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment);

"her stockings had several mends"

8. a protective cloth covering for an injured eye

9. a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body

patch

patch: see piece

patch (v.)

mid-15c., from patch (n.1). Electronics sense of "to connect temporarily" is attested from 1923. Related: Patched; patching.

patch (n.1)

"piece of cloth used to mend another material," late 14c., of obscure origin, perhaps a variant of pece, pieche, from Old North French pieche (see piece (n.)), or from an unrecorded Old English word (but Old English had claðflyhte "a patch"). Phrase not a patch on "nowhere near as good as" is from 1860.

patch (n.2)

"fool, clown," 1540s, perhaps from Italian pazzo "fool," of unknown origin. Possibly from Old High German barzjan "to rave" [Klein]. But Buck says pazzo is originally euphemistic, and from Latin patiens "suffering," in medical use, "the patient." Form perhaps influenced by folk etymology derivation from patch (n.1), on notion of a fool's patched garb.

mend, repair, patch, fix

这些动词均含"修理，修复"之意。

mend： 通常指较简单的修复过程，一般不需要专门技术或特殊工具。

repair可与mend换用，但一般指需要较高的职业技能和使用较复杂的工具进行修理。

patch： 通常指用类似材料修补破洞、裂缝或磨损的地方。

fix： 多用于美语，仅用于指带有安装固定性质的修理。

People in both groups used nicotine ( ' , 尼古丁) patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a brown patch on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a "brown patch" on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

a black dog with a white patch on its back

背上有一块白斑的黑狗

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a bald patch on the top of his head

他头顶的秃块

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damp patches on the wall

墙上的片片湿渍

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patches of dense fog

团团浓雾

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I sewed patches on the knees of my jeans.

我在我的牛仔裤膝部打了个补丁。

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He had a black patch over one eye.

他一只眼戴着黑眼罩。

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nicotine patches

尼古丁戒烟贴片

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a vegetable patch

菜地

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He knows every house in his patch.

他熟悉他那地区的每一座房子。

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She has had a lot of success in her home patch .

她在自己的家乡地区真是一帆风顺。

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to go through a bad/difficult/sticky patch

经历艰难 / 困难 / 不幸的时期

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Follow the instructions below to download and install the patch.

按照下面的说明下载并安装修补程序。

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patched jeans

带补丁的牛仔裤

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to patch a hole in the roof

修补屋顶的漏洞

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She was patched through to London on the satellite link.

她经卫星线路与伦敦接通了。

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They hope to be able to patch together a temporary settlement.

他们希望能草草搭成一个临时安置区。

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...the bald patch on the top of his head...

他头顶上的秃斑

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There was a small patch of blue in the grey clouds.

灰色的云团中透出一小片蓝天。

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...a patch of land covered in forest.

一小块林地

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...the little vegetable patch in her backyard.

她家后院中的一小块菜地

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...jackets with patches on the elbows.

肘部打着补丁的夹克

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...trying to fix the flat tire by putting a patch on it.

想打上一块补丁修好漏气的轮胎

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She went to the hospital and found him lying down with a patch over his eye.

她去了医院，发现他躺着，一只眼睛戴着眼罩。

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He and Walker patched the barn roof...

他和沃克补好了谷仓顶。

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One of the mechanics took off the damaged tyre, and took it back to the station to be patched.

其中一个机修工卸下坏轮胎，把它带回维修站修补。

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Older machines will need a software patch to be loaded to correct the date.

老些的机器需要下载软件补丁来修改日期。

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His marriage was going through a bad patch...

他的婚姻当时麻烦不断。

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The company I work for went through a rough patch.

我所在的公司经历了一段困难时期。

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He's not a patch on the rest of the Cabinet...

他远比不上内阁的其他成员。

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Handsome, she thought, but not a patch on Alex.

是帅，她想，不过比亚历克斯差远了。

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