clipping
英 ['klɪpɪŋ]
美 ['klɪpɪŋ]
- n. 剪裁，剪斷；剪報，剪輯；剪下物，剪下的東西
- adj. 頭等的，第一流的；極好的，恰好的
英文詞源
- clipping (n.1)
- early 13c., "clasping, embracing," verbal noun from clip (v.2). As a U.S. football penalty (not in OED), from 1920.
Clipping or Cutting Down from Behind. -- This is to be ruled under unnecessary roughness, and penalized when it is practiced upon "a man obviously out of the play." This "clipping" is a tendency in the game that the committee is watching anxiously and with some fear. ["Colliers," April 10, 1920]
- clipping (n.2)
- "a cutting," early 14c., verbal noun from clip (v.1). Sense of "a small piece cut off" is from late 15c. Meaning "an article cut from a newspaper" is from 1857.
雙語例句
- 1. I saw an old man out clipping his hedge.
- 我看見一位老人在外麵修剪樹籬。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Come in clipping time.
- 來得恰好.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. Boardman finished in 1hr 43mins, clipping 49 seconds from his own course record.
- 博德曼完成全程用時1小時43分，把自己的賽道紀錄縮短了49秒。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. He spent the whole morning clipping the trees.
- 他用整個上午修剪這些樹.
來自辭典例句
- 5. She looked with appreciative eyes at the powerful young man clipping the hedge.
- 她以欣賞的目光看著那個修剪矮樹籬的健壯的年輕人.
來自辭典例句