pedal

英['ped(?)l] 美['p?dl]

反義詞

復(fù)數(shù):?pedals;第三人稱單數(shù):?pedals;過(guò)去式:?pedalled;過(guò)去分詞:?pedalled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?pedalling;

pedal 自行車踏板

來(lái)自PIE*ped,腳，詞源同foot,biped.引申詞義自行車踏板。

pedal: pedal: [17] Pedal is one of a group of English words which go back to Latin pēs ‘foot’ or its Romance descendants (to which English foot is related). Others include impede [17], pedestal [16] (which comes via French from Old Italian piedestallo, a conflation of pie di stallo ‘foot of a stall’), pedestrian [18], pedicure [19], pedigree, and pedometer [18].
=> foot, impede, pawn, pedestal, pedestrian, pedigree
pedal (n.): 1610s, "lever (on an organ) worked by foot," from French pédale "feet, trick with the feet," from Italian pedale "treadle, pedal," from Late Latin pedale "(thing) of the foot," neuter of Latin pedalis "of the foot," from pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).

Extended to various mechanical contrivances by 1789. Pedal steel guitar is from 1969. Pedal-pushers "type of women's trousers suitable for bicycling" is from 1944.
When college girls took to riding bicycles in slacks, they first rolled up one trouser leg, then rolled up both. This whimsy has now produced a trim variety of long shorts, called "pedal pushers." ["Life," Aug. 28, 1944]
pedal (v.): 1866 of musical organs, 1888 of bicycles, from pedal (n.). Related: Pedaled; pedaling.

1. The harder the brake pedal is pressed, the greater the car's deceleration.: 剎車踩得越用力，車子減速越猛。

2. Your foot falls off the pedal and you stall the car.: 你的腳離開(kāi)踏板，汽車便會(huì)熄火。

3. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal.: 他拒絕降低對(duì)這起丑聞的調(diào)查力度。

4. He appeared to back-pedal on that statement.: 他看起來(lái)想要收回聲明中說(shuō)過(guò)的話。

5. The protests have forced the government to back-pedal on the new tax.: 抗議活動(dòng)已迫使政府撤銷新的稅目。