Winchester
英 ['wɪntʃɪstə]
美 ['wɪn,tʃɪstɚ]
英文詞源
- Winchester
- city in Hampshire, capital of Wessex and later of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Old English Uintancæstir (c.730), from Ouenta (c. 150), from Venta, a pre-Celtic name perhaps meaning "favored or chief place" + Old English ceaster "Roman town" (see Chester). As the name of a kind of breech-loading repeating rifle it is from the name of Oliver F. Winchester (1810-1880), U.S. manufacturer.
雙語例句
- 1. Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things.
- 溫切斯特先生知識廣博，通曉萬事。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. His relics are buried at Winchester.
- 他的遺骸葬在溫徹斯特.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. They were all equipped with new Winchester rifles.
- 他們都配備著嶄新的溫徹斯特式來複槍.
來自辭典例句
- 4. You mean someone that ain't scared of a Winchester rifle?
- 你意思是說追擊者不怕溫徹斯特來福槍?
來自電影對白
- 5. Izaak Walton, English writer, died at Winchester aged 90.
- 英國作家艾紮克·沃爾頓在溫切斯特去世,終年90歲.
來自互聯網