screw

• vt. 旋，拧；压榨；强迫
• n. 螺旋；螺丝钉；吝啬鬼
• vi. 转动，拧

来自中古英语 screw,螺旋，螺丝，可能来自 PIE*sker,弯，转，词源同 ring,curve,shrimp.引申 动词词义旋，拧等。

1. someone who guards prisoners

2. a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole

3. a propeller with several angled blades that rotates to push against water or air

4. a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head

5. slang terms for sexual intercourse

screw

screw: [15] Screw comes ultimately from a Latin word meaning ‘female pig’ – scrōfa (source also of English scrofula [14], a disease to which pigs were once thought to be particularly prone). By the medieval period scrōfa was being used for a ‘screw’, mainly no doubt in allusion to the pig’s curly, corkscrew-like tail, but also perhaps partly prompted by the resemblance to Latin scrobis ‘ditch, trench’, hence ‘cunt’, which was used in Vulgar Latin for the ‘groove in a screw-head’ (the use of the verb screw for ‘copulate’, first recorded in the early 18th century, is purely coincidental).

English got the word from Old French escroue, which came either directly from Latin scrōfa or via prehistoric West Germanic *scrūva (source of German schraube ‘screw’).
=> scrofula

screw (n.)

"cylinder of wood or metal with a spiral ridge round it; hole in which a screw turns," c. 1400, from Middle French escroue "nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole," of uncertain etymology; not found in other Romanic languages. Perhaps via Gallo-Roman *scroba or West Germanic *scruva from Vulgar Latin scrobis "screw-head groove," in classical Latin "ditch, trench," also "vagina" (Diez, though OED finds this "phonologically impossible").

Kluge, Watkins and others trace it to Latin scrofa "breeding sow," perhaps based on the shape of a pig's penis (compare Portuguese porca, Spanish perca "a female screw," from Latin porca "sow"). Latin scrofa is literally "digger, rooter," from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). A group of apparently cognate Germanic words (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schruve, Dutch schroef, German Schraube, Swedish skrufva "screw") are said to be French loan-words.

Sense of "means of pressure or coercion" is from 1640s, probably in reference to instruments of torture (such as thumbscrews). Meaning "prison guard, warden" is 1812 in underworld slang, originally in reference to the key they carried (screw as slang for "key" attested from 1795). Slang meaning "an act of copulation" is recorded from 1929 (meaning "a prostitute" is attested from 1725). To have a screw loose "have a dangerous (usually mental) weakness" is recorded from 1810.

screw (v.)

"to twist (something) like a screw," 1590s, from screw (n.). From 1610s as "to attach with a screw." Slang meaning "to copulate" dates from at least 1725, originally usually of the action of the male, on the notion of driving a screw into something. Meaning "defraud, cheat" is from 1900. First recorded 1949 in exclamations as a euphemism. Related: Screwed; screwing. To screw up "blunder" is recorded from 1942. Screwed up originally was figurative for "tuned to a high or precise pitch" (1907), an image from the pegs of stringed instruments. Meaning "confused, muddled" attested from 1943. Expression to have (one's) head screwed on the right (or wrong) way is from 1821.

One of the screws is loose.

有一颗螺丝松了。

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Now tighten all the screws.

现在把全部螺丝都拧紧。

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a good screw

好的性交对象

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The bookcase is screwed to the wall.

书架用螺丝固定在墙上了。

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You need to screw all the parts together.

你得用螺丝把所有的零件固定在一起。

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Now screw down the lid.

现在用螺丝将盖子固定好。

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She screwed the cap back on the jar.

她又把广口瓶的盖子拧上。

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Screw the bolt tight.

把螺栓拧紧。

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The bulb should just screw into the socket.

把灯泡拧到灯口上就行。

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The lid simply screws on.

这盖子一拧就盖好了。

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I screwed up the letter and threw it into the fire.

我把那封信揉成一团，扔进了火里。

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Screw the foil into a little ball.

把箔纸揉成小团。

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We've been screwed.

我们挨宰了。

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How much did they screw you for (= how much did you have to pay) ?

他们黑了你多少钱？

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I finally screwed up my courage and went to the dentist.

我终于鼓起勇气，去看了牙医。

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They screwed the money out of her by threats.

他们威逼她交出了钱。

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You really screwed up there!

你实在是搞了个一塌糊涂！

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Each bracket is fixed to the wall with just three screws.

每个托架只用了 3 颗螺钉固定在墙上。

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I had screwed the shelf on the wall myself...

我自己用螺钉把架子固定在墙上。

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Screw down any loose floorboards...

用螺钉固定住所有松动的地板。

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...an ordinary jam jar with a screw lid.

带螺旋盖的普通果酱罐

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Kelly screwed the silencer onto the pistol...

凯利把消音器拧到手枪上。

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Screw down the lid fairly tightly...

把盖子拧紧。

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He screwed the paper into a ball and tossed it into the fire.

他把纸揉成一团抛进火里。

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He screwed his face into an expression of mock pain.

他面部扭曲，假装疼痛。

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They haven't given us accurate information. We've been screwed...

他们没有提供准确的消息。我们被骗了。

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The consumer is getting screwed by cover charges as well.

这名消费者也被诈取了服务费。

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For decades rich nations have been screwing money out of poor nations.

富国压榨穷国长达数十载。

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Parisian taxi drivers are threatening to mount a blockade to turn the screw on the government.

巴黎出租车司机们正威胁阻塞交通以对政府进一步施压。

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Every rebel raid is another turn of the screw, increasing the pressure on the President.

每次叛乱分子发动袭击就是又往前逼进了一步，使得总统的压力越来越大。

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