dyke

• n. 堤；女子同性恋者
• n. (Dyke)人名；(英)戴克；(德)迪克

来自dike拼写变体，词源同dig,ditch. 女同性恋义词源不详，可能来自dyke的俚语女阴。

dyke

dyke: see ditch

dyke (n.)

1931, American English, perhaps a shortening of morphadike, dialectal garbling of hermaphrodite; but bulldyker "engage in lesbian activities" is attested from 1921, and a source from 1896 lists dyke as slang for "the vulva."

[T]he word appears first in the long forms, bulldiker and bulldyking, both used in the 1920s by American blacks. No African antecedents have been found for the term, however, which leads to the possibility that this is basically just another backcountry, barnyard word, perhaps a combination of BULL and DICK. [Rawson]

1. If one sheep leap over the dyke, all the rest will follow.

一只羊跳过沟, 其余的羊也跟着跳.

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2. One ant - hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.

千里长堤,溃于蚁穴.

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3. One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.

千里之堤,溃于蚁穴.

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4. A weak dyke bursts easily before a flood.

大水首先冲毁不坚固的堤防.

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5. The workers finished the dyke with remarkable speed.

工人们以惊人的速度完成了筑坝工程.

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