prick
英 [pr?k]
美[pr?k]
- vt. 刺，戳；刺傷，刺痛；豎起
- n. 刺，扎；刺痛，刺傷；陰莖；錐
- vi. 刺；豎起
- adj. 豎起的
常用詞匯CET6+TEM4GRE考研CET6低頻詞
詞態變化
復數:?pricks;第三人稱單數:?pricks;過去式:?pricked;過去分詞:?pricked;現在分詞:?pricking;
中文詞源
prick 刺，扎，戳
來自古英語prica,刺，戳，尖點，來自Proto-Germanic*priko,刺，尖點。
英文詞源
- prick
- prick: [OE] Prick is a word of the Low German area, which English shares with Dutch (prik). Its ultimate origins, though, are not known. The earliest record of its use for ‘penis’ is from the late 16th century, and in the 16th and 17th centuries women employed it as a term of endearment – a usage which did not go down well in all quarters: ‘One word alone hath troubled some, because the immodest maid soothing the young man, calls him her Prick. He who cannot away with this, instead of “my Prick”, let him write “my Sweetheart”,’ H M, Colloquies of Erasmus 1671. Prickle [OE] is a diminutive derivative.
=> prickle - prick (n.)
- Middle English prikke, from Old English prica (n.) "point, puncture; particle, small portion of space or time," common Proto-Germanic (compare Low German prik "point," Middle Dutch prick, Dutch prik, Swedish prick "point, dot"). Meaning "pointed weapon, dagger" is first attested 1550s.
Earliest recorded use for "penis" is 1590s (Shakespeare puns upon it). My prick was used 16c.-17c. as a term of endearment by "immodest maids" for their boyfriends. As a term of abuse, it is attested by 1929. Prick-teaser attested from 1958. The use in kick against the pricks (Acts ix:5, first in the translation of 1382) probably is from sense of "a goad for oxen" (mid-14c.), which made it a plausible translation of Latin stimulus; advorsum stimulum calces was proverbial in Latin. - prick (v.)
- Old English prician "to prick, pierce, prick out, sting," from West Germanic *prikojan (cognates: Low German pricken, Dutch prikken "to prick"), of uncertain origin. Danish prikke "to mark with dots," Swedish pricka "to point, prick, mark with dots" probably are from Low German. Related: Pricked; pricking. To prick up one's ears is 1580s, originally of animals with pointed ears (prycke-eared, of foxes, is from 1520s).
雙語例句
- 1. Prick the potatoes and rub the skins with salt.
- 將馬鈴薯戳一些洞，并用鹽揉搓外皮。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. At the same time she felt a prick on her neck.
- 同時，她覺得脖子上一陣刺痛。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Davydd felt tears prick his eyes.
- 大衛德覺得眼淚就要流出來了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. She stopped talking to prick up her ears.
- 她不再說話，豎起耳朵聽著。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Prick holes in the paper with a pin.
- 用大頭針在紙上扎洞。
來自《權威詞典》