clipper是什么意思

clipper

英 ['kl?p?] 美 ['kl?p?]

clipper 剪具

來自clip,剪。

clipper (n.): late 14c., "sheepshearer;" early 15c., "a barber;" c. 1300 as a surname; agent noun from Middle English clippen "shorten" (see clip (v.1)). The type of fast sailing ship so called from 1823 (in Cooper's "The Pilot"), probably from clip (v.1) in sense of "to move or run rapidly," hence early 19c. sense "person or animal who looks capable of fast running." Perhaps originally simply "fast ship," regardless of type:
Well, you know, the Go-along-Gee was one o' your flash Irish cruisers -- the first o' your fir-built frigates -- and a clipper she was! Give her a foot o' the sheet, and she'd go like a witch--but somehow o'nother, she'd bag on a bowline to leeward. ["Naval Sketch-Book," by "An officer of rank," London, 1826]
The early association of the ships was with Baltimore, Maryland. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper "swift horse," echoic (Clipper appears as the name of an English race horse in 1831). In late 18c., the word principally meant "one who cuts off the edges of coins" for the precious metal.

2. Late in 1935 American clipper planes began trans - Pacific flight.: 1935年底,美國的遠(yuǎn)程客機(jī)開始了橫越太平洋的飛行.

4. He clipped off the few hairs of his spare beard with a fingernail clipper.: 他用一把指甲剪剪去幾根胡須.

5. When you hand clipper, it is located near your thumb.: 當(dāng)你手握軋刀時, 此手柄就位于大拇指附近,調(diào)節(jié)起來非常方便.