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wheel是什么意思

wheel

英 [wi?l] 美 [wil]

n. 車輪；方向盤；轉動
vt. 轉動；使變換方向；給…裝輪子
vi. 旋轉；突然轉變方向；盤旋飛行

中文詞源

wheel 輪子

來自古英語hweol,輪子，來自PIE*kwel,轉，圈，詞源同cycle,collar。引申義輪子。

英文詞源

wheel: wheel: [OE] A wheel is etymologically simply something that ‘goes round’. It is a member of a large family of words that goes back to Indo- European *qweqwlo-, which was derived from *qwelo- ‘go round’. Other members include Greek kúklos ‘circle’ (source of English cycle), Sanskrit cakrá- ‘circle, wheel’ (source of English chukker), Serbo-Croat and Czech kolo ‘wheel’, and Russian koleso ‘wheel’. Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was *khwekhula, which evolved into Dutch wiel, Swedish and Danish hjul, and English wheel.
=> chukker, cycle, encyclopedia
wheel (n.): Old English hweol, hweogol "wheel," from Proto-Germanic *hwewlaz- (cognates: Old Norse hvel, Old Swedish hiughl, Old Frisian hwel, Middle Dutch weel), from PIE *kw(e)-kwl-o- "wheel, circle," suffixed, reduplicated form of root *kwel- (1) (see cycle (n.)).
The root wegh-, "to convey, especially by wheeled vehicle," is found in virtually every branch of Indo-European, including now Anatolian. The root, as well as other widely represented roots such as aks- and nobh-, attests to the presence of the wheel -- and vehicles using it -- at the time Proto-Indo-European was spoken. [Watkins, p. 96]
Figurative sense is early 14c. Wheel of fortune attested from early 15c. Slang wheels "a car" is recorded from 1959. Wheeler-dealer is from 1954, a rhyming elaboration of dealer.
wheel (v.): "to turn like a wheel," c. 1200, from wheel (n.); transitive sense attested from late 14c. Related: Wheeled; wheeling.

雙語例句

1. He spun the steering-wheel so that we yawed from side to side.: 他急速打著舵輪，把我們搞得搖來晃去的。

2. As the wheel turned, the potter shaped the clay.: 輪子一邊轉動，制陶工人一邊拉坯。

3. Catlett got behind the wheel and I sat in back.: 卡特利特開車，我坐在車子后面。

4. Unauthorized vehicles will be wheel clamped or towed away.: 未經(jīng)許可停放的車輛將會被輪夾鎖住或拖走。

5. The wheel had long since rusted from years of disuse.: 多年不用的車輪早已銹跡斑斑。

wheel是什么意思

wheel

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