bullet: [16] Etymologically, a bullet is a ‘little ball’. It comes from French boulette, a diminutive form of boule ‘ball’, from which English also gets bowl, as in the game of bowls. It originally meant ‘cannon-ball’ as well as ‘rifle or pistol projectile’, but this sense had effectively died out by the mid-18th century. => bowl
bullet (n.)
1550s, from Middle French boulette "cannonball, small ball," diminutive of boule "a ball" (13c.), from Latin bulla "round thing, knob" (see bull (n.2)). Earliest version of bite the bullet recorded 1891, probably with a sense of giving someone a soft lead bullet to clench in the teeth during a painful operation.
雙語例句
1. Everywhere building facades are pitted with shell and bullet holes.
任一處的建築物正麵都布滿了彈洞。
來自柯林斯例句
2. An 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet.
一名8歲男孩兒被流彈打死。
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3. The bullet slammed into the ceiling, spraying them with bits of plaster.
子彈砰地射進了天花板，掉落的石膏碎片落了他們一身。
來自柯林斯例句
4. His life was saved by a quarter-inch-thick bullet-proof steel screen.
多虧一塊1/4英寸厚的防彈鋼板，他才撿了條命。
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5. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg, shattering his thigh bone.