scaffold
英 ['sk?f??ld; -f(?)ld]
美['sk?fold]
- n. 腳手架；鷹架；絞刑臺
- vt. 給…搭腳手架；用支架支撐
TEM8GRE擴展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?scaffolds;
助記提示
1. Scaff (人名：斯卡夫) + old => 斯卡夫這么老了還是被送上了絞刑臺，因為他在腳手架上故意將人推下致死而被判處了絞刑。
中文詞源
scaffold 斷頭臺，絞刑架，腳手架
來自中古英語 scaffold,腳手架，臨時搭的平臺，來自古法語 eschaffaut,高臺，來自拉丁語 scadafaltum,來自 ex-,向外，catafalcum,高臺，高的看臺，可能來自 cata-,向下，falcum,架子， 平臺，詞源同 balcony,balk.后引申詞義斷頭臺，絞刑架。
英文詞源
- scaffold
- scaffold: [14] Historically, scaffold and catafalque [17] ‘coffin-stand’ are virtually the same word. Catafalque comes via French catafalque and Italian catafalco from Vulgar Latin *catafalcum, a word of uncertain origin. Combination with the prefix ex- produced *excatafalcum, which passed into English via Old French eschaffaut and Anglo-Norman *scaffaut.
The word originally denoted any sort of platform, and did not narrow down to ‘platform for executions’ until the 16th century. The derivative scaffolding, a term which originally alluded to the platforms set up around a building rather than to poles supporting them, also dates from the 14th century.
=> catafalque - scaffold (n.)
- mid-14c., "wooden framework used in building, etc., temporary structure for workmen to make walls," a shortening of an Old North French variant of Old French eschafaut "scaffold" (Modern French échafaud), probably altered (by influence of eschace "a prop, support") from chaffaut, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum (see catafalque). Meaning "platform for a hanging" is from 1550s. Dutch schavot, German Schafott, Danish skafot are from French. As a verb from 1540s.
雙語例句
- 1. Moore ascended the scaffold and addressed the executioner.
- 穆爾走上斷頭臺，和劊子手說話。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He turned towards the scaffold, and stretched forth his arms.
- 他轉向刑臺, 向前伸出雙臂.
來自英漢文學 - 紅字
- 3. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold!
- 隨后, 他就癱倒在刑臺上了!
來自英漢文學 - 紅字
- 4. Treating each tree as a separate scaffold of a very low - headed tree.
- 將每棵樹作為一個樹冠很矮的骨干枝來處理.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The men on the scaffold turned about and drank to our healths.
- 腳手架上的工人也轉過身來為我們的健康干杯.
來自辭典例句