wicket
英['w?k?t]
美['w?k?t]
- n. 小門；三柱門；邊門；售票窗
詞態變化
復數:?wickets;
中文詞源
wicket 三柱門
來自PIE*weik,彎，轉，編織，詞源同wicker,vicarious.引申詞義小門，籬笆門，后用于指板球的三柱門。詞義演變比較hurdle.
英文詞源
- wicket
- wicket: [13] A wicket was originally a ‘small gate’, and etymologically the word appears to denote something that ‘turns’ – presumably on a hinge in opening and closing. It was borrowed from Old Northern French wiket, which in turn came from a Germanic source represented also by modern Swedish vika ‘fold, turn’. The set of stumps originally used for cricket resembled a gate – indeed the game’s first batsmen may have defended an actual gate in a sheep pen – and so it came to be known as a wicket. This was in the 18th century; the extension of the term to the ‘pitch’ dates from the mid 19th century.
- wicket (n.)
- early 13c., "small door or gate," especially one forming part of a larger one, from Anglo-French wiket, Old North French wiket (Old French guichet, Norman viquet) "small door, wicket, wicket gate," probably from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vik "nook," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (see weak). The notion is of "something that turns." Cricket sense of "set of three sticks defended by the batsman" is recorded from 1733; hence many figurative phrases in British English.
雙語例句
- 1. The fielders crouch around the batsman's wicket.
- 防守隊員蹲伏在擊球手守衛的三柱門周圍。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Defending his wicket watchfully, the last man is playing out time.
- 最后一名球員小心地守著他的三柱門, 直到比賽結束.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Buy your tickets at this wicket.
- 請在此窗口買票.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. The wicket opened on a stone staircase, leading upward.
- 小門通向一道上行的石梯.
來自英漢文學 - 雙城記
- 5. 'The ghosts that vanished when the wicket closed.
- “ 小門關掉之后便消失的幽靈群.
來自英漢文學 - 雙城記