plumb
英 [plʌm]
美 [plʌm]
- vt. 使垂直；探测，探索
- n. 垂直；铅锤
- adv. 恰恰，正；垂直地
- vi. 当管子工
- adj. 垂直的
- n. (Plumb)人名；(英)普拉姆
助记提示
plumbum 铅。
plumb 铅锤,垂直的。
aplomb 沉着,泰然自若,垂直。
前缀a可以看作是加强语气,也可以看作'of,at,to' -plomb- = plumb 铅锤.
中文词源
plumb 铅，铅垂，使垂直，探索，钻研，恰好来自拉丁语plumbum,铅，铅球，可能借自希腊语molybdos,铅，词源同molybdenum.后用于 指测量垂直度的铅球，铅锤，引申词义探索，钻研，以及副词词义恰好，正好等。
英文词源
- plumb
- plumb: [13] Plumb comes via Old French *plombe from Latin plumbum ‘lead’, a word of uncertain origin. Of its modern English uses, the verbal ‘sound the depths’ comes from the use of a line weighted with lead (a plumb line) to measure the depth of water and the adverbial ‘exactly’ from the use of a similar line to determine verticality. Related words in English include aplomb; plumber [14] (originally simply a ‘worker in lead’, but eventually, since water pipes were once made of lead, a ‘pipe-layer’); plummet [14] (a diminutive form coined in Old French); and plunge [14] (from the Vulgar Latin derivative *plumbicāre ‘sound with a plumb’).
=> aplomb, plumber, plummet, plunge - plumb (n.)
- "lead hung on a string to show the vertical line," early 14c., from Old French *plombe, plomee "sounding lead," and directly from Late Latin *plumba, originally plural of Latin plumbum "lead (the metal), lead ball; pipe; pencil," a word of unknown origin, related to Greek molybdos "lead" (dialectal bolimos) and perhaps from an extinct Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian.
- plumb (v.)
- early 15c., "to sink" (like lead), from plumb (n.). Meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1560s; figurative sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1590s. Related: Plumbed; plumbing.
- plumb (adj.)
- "perpendicular, vertical," mid-15c., from plumb (n.). The notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump, plum, or plunk.
双语例句
- 1. The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.
- 宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。
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- 2. Please come and plumb in my new central heating system.
- 请来帮我接通新的中央供暖系统的水管。
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- 3. She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
- 她学会了自己给房子拉接电线、敷设水管。
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- 4. She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions.
- 她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。
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- 5. They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair.
- 他们常常陷入孤独、屈辱和绝望的深渊。
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