patch
英 [p?t?]美[p?t?]
- n. 眼罩；斑點；碎片；小塊土地
- vt. 修補；解決；掩飾
- vi. 打補丁
- n. (Patch)人名；(英)帕奇
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詞態變化
復數:?patches;第三人稱單數:?patches;過去式:?patched;過去分詞:?patched;現在分詞:?patching;
中文詞源
patch 小塊，斑點，補丁
來自古法語pieche,來自piece方言變體，引申詞義小塊，斑點，補丁等。插入字母t,比較bake,batch.
英文詞源
- 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 claeflyhte "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.
雙語例句
- 1. The company I work for went through a rough patch.
- 我所在的公司經歷了一段困難時期。
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- 2. He's not a patch on the rest of the Cabinet.
- 他遠比不上內閣的其他成員。
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- 3. They tried digging in a patch just below the cave.
- 他們試著在洞穴正下方的一塊地上挖掘。
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- 4. There was a patch of waste land behind the church.
- 教堂的后面有一塊荒地。
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- 5. Handsome, she thought, but not a patch on Alex.
- 是帥，她想，不過比亞歷克斯差遠了。
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