cable
英 ['keɪb(ə)l]
美 ['kebl]
- n. 纜繩；電纜；海底電報
- vt. 打電報
- vi. 打海底電報
助記提示
1、from Old North French cable, from Medieval Latin capulum "lasso, rope, halter for cattle".
2、cap- => capulum => cable. 其最初的原始含義為：something that used to grasp, seize, take. => 由此引申為：lasso, rope, halter for cattle. 進而引申為：電纜，纜繩。
3. CNN是美國有線電視新聞網（Cable News Network）的英文縮寫.
中文詞源
cable 電纜來自詞根cap, 抓，拿，握，詞源同accept, capture. 原指抓動物的繩索。
英文詞源
- cable
- cable: [13] The ultimate source of cable is late Latin capulum ‘lasso’, a derivative of the verb capere ‘take, seize’, either directly or perhaps via Arabic habl. In Provençal, capulum became cable, which produced the Old French form chable: so English must either have borrowed the word straight from Provençal, or from *cable, an unrecorded Anglo-Norman variant of the Old French word.
=> capture, heave - cable (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old North French cable, from Medieval Latin capulum "lasso, rope, halter for cattle," from Latin capere "to take, seize" (see capable). Technically, in nautical use, a rope 10 or more inches around, to hold the ship when at anchor; in non-nautical use, a rope of wire (not hemp or fiber). Given a new range of senses in 19c.: Meaning "message received by telegraphic cable" is from 1883 (short for cable message). Cable car is from 1879. Cable television first attested 1963; shortened form cable is from 1972.
- cable (v.)
- c. 1500, "to tie up with cables;" 1871, American English, "to transmit by cable;" from cable (n.). Related: Cabled; cabling.
雙語例句
- 1. These strands of molecules twine around each other to form cable-like structures.
- 這些分子鏈彼此纏繞，形成纜線狀的結構。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.
- 將用鋼纜替換磨損的繩索。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The cable-TV and health-care industries are both being mauled by government.
- 有線電視和保健業正在遭受政府的嚴厲批評。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable.
- 半個小時內，他們就給每根電纜都換了標簽。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. China has almost 15 million subscribers to satellite and cable television.
- 中國有將近1,500萬衛星電視和有線電視用戶。
來自柯林斯例句