axle

• n. 車軸；[車輛] 輪軸

來自PIE *aks, 軸。

axle

axle: [17] The word axle emerges surprisingly late considering the antiquity of axles, but related terms had existed in the language for perhaps a thousand years. Old English had eax, which came from a hypothetical Germanic *akhsō, related to Latin axis. This survived in the compound ax-tree until the 17th century (later in Scotland); tree in this context meant ‘beam’.

But from the early 14th century the native ax-tree began to be ousted by Old Norse öxultré (or as it became in English axle-tree); the element öxull came from a prehistoric Germanic *akhsulaz, a derivative of *akhsō. Axle first appeared on its own in the last decade of the 16th century (meaning ‘axis’, a sense it has since lost), and became firmly established in the early 17th century.

axle (n.)

"pole or pin upon which a wheel revolves," Middle English axel-, from some combination of Old English eax and Old Norse öxull "axis," both from Proto-Germanic *akhsulaz (cognates: Old English eaxl, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala, German Achsel "shoulder"), from PIE *aks- "axis" (see axis). Found only in compound axletree before 14c.

1. to weld a broken axle

焊接一條斷裂的軸

來自《權威詞典》

2. The rear axle carries the greatest weight.

後軸負荷最重的分量.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.

於是,輪子在軸上旋轉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The axle doesn't work smoothly. It needs oiling.

輪軸發澀, 該上油了.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. Frank abandoned his axle as the heat in it died.

由於車軸已經涼了,弗蘭克扔下了它.

來自辭典例句