crop: [OE] Old English cropp meant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in other Germanic languages, including German kropf and Dutch krop, are used for ‘bird’s craw’ but also for various bodily swellings in the throat and elsewhere, indicating the word’s underlying meaning is ‘round mass, lump’.
Its Germanic ancestor, *kruppō, was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *cruppa, which made its way via Old French into English as croup ‘horse’s (round) rump’ [13], and as the derivative crupper [13]. Croupier [18] is based on French croupe, having originally meant ‘person who rides on the rump, behind the saddle’. The Germanic base *krup- ‘round mass, lump’ is also the ancestor of English group. => croup, croupier, crupper, group
crop (n.)
Old English cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." The common notion is "protuberance." Cognate with Old High German kropf, Old Norse kroppr. Meaning "harvest product" is c. 1300, probably through the verbal meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c. 1200).
crop (v.)
"cut off the top of a plant," c. 1200, from crop (n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related: Cropped; cropping. Women's fashion crop top is attested from 1984.
双语例句
1. I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass.
我让马低下头啃吃春天的青草。
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2. Problems will crop up and hit you before you are ready.
你还未准备好，问题就会突然出现并打击你。
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3. I decided to crop the picture just above the water line.
我决定把这张照片水印以下的部分裁掉。
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4. Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded a crop worth $1.75 billion.
去年40万英亩的土地产值达17.5亿美元。
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5. The crop represents a tiny fraction of U.S. production.