buckle

• vi. 扣住；變彎曲
• vt. 扣住；使彎曲
• n. 皮帶扣，帶扣
• n. (Buckle)人名；(英)巴克爾

來自拉丁詞bucca, 下巴，臉頰。原指係在下巴上的帽子，搭扣。來自PIE *bheu, 膨脹，鼓起來，詞源同bucket.

buckle

buckle: [14] English acquired buckle via Old French boucla from Latin buccula ‘cheek strap of a helmet’. This was a diminutive form of Latin bucca ‘cheek’ (source of French bouche ‘mouth’), which gave English the anatomical term buccal ‘of the cheeks’ [19], and some have speculated is related to English pock. The notion of ‘fastening’ implicit in the Latin word carried through into English.

As well as ‘cheek strap’, Latin buccula meant ‘boss in the middle of a shield’. Old French boucle adopted this sense too, and created the derivative boucler, originally an adjective, meaning (of a shield) ‘having a central boss’. English borrowed this as buckler ‘small round shield’ [13]. The verb buckle was created from the English noun in the late 14th century, but the sense ‘distort’, which developed in the 16th century, comes from French boucler, which had come to mean ‘curl, bulge’.

Also from the French verb is bouclé ‘yarn with irregular loops’ [19].
=> bouclé, buckler

buckle (v.1)

late 14c., bokelen, "to fasten with a buckle," from buckle (n.). Related: Buckled; buckling. To buckle down "apply effort, settle down," (1874) is said to be a variant of knuckle down (see knuckle).

buckle (n.)

"spiked metal ring for holding a belt, etc., c. 1300, bukel, from Old French bocle "boss (of a shield)," then "shield," then by further extension "buckle, metal ring," (12c., Modern French boucle), from Latin buccula "cheek strap of a helmet," in Late Latin "boss of a shield," diminutive of bucca "cheek" (see bouche).

Boucle in the middle ages had the double sense of a "shield's boss" and "a ring"; the last sense has alone survived, and it metaph. developed in the boucle de cheveux, ringlets. [Kitchin]

buckle (v.2)

"distort, warp, bend out of shape" 1520s, bokelen "to arch the body," from Middle French boucler "to bulge," from Old French bocler "to bulge," from bocle "boss of a shield" (see buckle (n.)). Meaning "bend under strong pressure" is from 1590s (figurative from 1640s) . Related: Buckled; buckling.

1. Her whole body began to buckle, unbalancing the ladder.

她整個身體開始彎曲，搞得梯子傾側起來。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The door was beginning to buckle from the intense heat.

門在高溫高熱下開始變形。

來自柯林斯例句

3. A sign just ahead of me said, Buckle Up. It's the Law.

我麵前的一個牌子上寫著：扣好安全帶。這是法律規定。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The two ends buckle at the back.

帶子兩端在背後扣起來.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. She found it hard to buckle down.

她很難專心做一件事情.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》