nickel
英 ['n?k(?)l]
美['n?kl]
- n. 鎳；鎳幣；五分鎳幣
- vt. 鍍鎳于
- n. (Nickel)人名；(德、英)尼克爾
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詞態變化
復數:?nickels;
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音譯“鎳”。
中文詞源
nickel 鎳，分幣
來自瑞典語kopparnickel,銅礦，銅礦中的魔鬼，來自koppar,銅，即copper,nickel,魔鬼，常見名Nicholas的昵稱，來自古英語Old Nick,魔鬼。一種銅礦中的雜質，被礦工戲稱為魔鬼，后研究證明該雜質實為鎳。鎳常被用于鑄造錢幣，即分幣，以代替更昂貴的銅錢。
英文詞源
- nickel
- nickel: [18] The element nickel was named in 1754 by the Swedish mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt. The word he chose was a truncated form of kupfernickel, a term formerly used by German miners for niccolite, a nickle-bearing ore. This meant literally ‘copperdemon’, an allusion probably to the fact that niccolite looks as though it contains copper, but does not. The -nickel part of the term represents a pet form of the name Nikolaus, perhaps chosen for its resemblance to German nix ‘water-sprite’. Nickel was first used for a US five-cent coin (made of a copper and nickel alloy) in the 1880s.
- nickel (n.)
- whitish metal element, 1755, coined in 1754 by Swedish mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt (1722-1765) from shortening of Swedish kopparnickel "copper-colored ore" (from which it was first obtained), a half-translation of German Kupfernickel, literally "copper demon," from Kupfer (see copper) + Nickel "demon, goblin, rascal" (a pet form of masc. proper name Nikolaus, compare English Old Nick "the devil;" see Nicholas); the ore so called by miners because it looked like copper but yielded none.
Meaning "coin made partly of nickel" is from 1857, when the U.S. introduced one-cent coins made of nickel to replace the old bulky copper pennies. Application to five-cent piece (originally one part nickel, three parts copper) is from 1883, American English; in earlier circulation there were silver half-dimes. To nickel-and-dime (someone) is from 1964 (nickels and dimes "very small amounts of money" is attested from 1893).
雙語例句
- 1. Nickel can be used for making coins.
- 鎳可做成錢幣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. May I have a nickel?
- 能給我五分錢 嗎 ?
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. In the squares place a penny, nickel, dime and quarter in that order. The object is to reverse the order of these coins.
- 在這些方塊中按順序放置1分、5分、10分和25分的硬幣各一枚。目標是顛倒這些硬幣的順序。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He immediately used the same nickel to buy one of Billy's cakes.
- 他立即用同樣的五美分幣買了比利的一塊蛋糕.
來自英語晨讀30分（初二）
- 5. Metals commonly mixed with gold are nickel, platinum, and copper.
- 通常與金混合的金屬有鎳 、 鉑和銅.
來自英語晨讀30分（高一）