plank

• n. [木] 厚木板；支架；政綱條款
• vt. 在…上鋪板；撂下；立刻付款
• n. (Plank)人名；(英、俄、芬、德)普蘭克

來自拉丁語planca,寬木板，板條，來自PIE*plak,平的，來自PIE*pele,展開，放平，詞源同plan,plain.

plank

plank: [13] The etymological idea underlying plank may be ‘flatness’. It comes via planke, a northern dialect version of Old French planche (source of English planchette [19]), from late Latin planca ‘slab’, a derivative of the adjective plancus ‘flat’. This may have come from the same source as Greek pláx ‘flat surface’, ancestor of English placenta.
=> planchette

plank (n.)

late 13c. (c. 1200 as a surname), from Old North French planke, variant of Old French planche "plank, slab, little wooden bridge" (12c.), from Late Latin planca "broad slab, board," probably from Latin plancus "flat, flat-footed," from PIE *plak- (1) "to be flat" (see placenta). Technically, timber sawed to measure 2 to 6 inches thick, 9 inches or more wide, and 8 feet or more long. Political sense of "item of a party platform" is U.S. coinage from 1848. To walk the plank, supposedly a pirate punishment, is first attested 1789 and most early references are to slave-traders disposing of excess human cargo in crossing the ocean.

1. Frank put the first plank down and nailed it in place.

弗蘭克放下第一塊厚木板，把它釘在合適的位置上。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Clamp one end of the plank to the edge of the table.

把厚木板的一端用夾具固定在桌子的邊上。

來自《權威詞典》

3. a plank of wood

一塊木板條

來自《權威詞典》

4. The plank fell on the ground with a thump.

砰的一聲,木板倒下來了.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. The plank was set against the wall.

木板靠著牆壁.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》