sheet

• n. 薄片，紙張；薄板；床單
• vt. 覆蓋；蓋上被單；使成大片
• vi. 成片流動；大片落下
• adj. 片狀的
• n. (Sheet)人名；(英)希特

來自古英語 scete,布，覆蓋物，來自 Proto-Germanic*skauta,投擲，投射，來自 PIE*skeud,射 出，發射，詞源同 shoot,shot,shut.引申諸相關詞義。詞義演變比較 pork,豬肉，原義豬，字麵 意思為喜歡拱的動物，詞源同 furrow,溝，壟。

sheet

sheet: Sheet ‘cloth’ [OE] and sheet ‘rope attached to a sail’ [OE] are distinct words, although they have a common ancestor. This was the Germanic base *skaut-, *skut- ‘project’, which also produced English scot-free, scuttle ‘sink a ship’, shoot, shot, shout, shut, and skit. This produced two Old English nouns, scēte ‘cloth’ and scēata ‘sail-rope’, which have formally coalesced in modern English as sheet, but retained their distinctive meanings. (Sheet ‘cloth’ was not used specifically for ‘bed sheet’ until the 13th century.)
=> scot-free, scuttle, shoot, shot, shout, shut, skit

sheet (n.1)

Old English sciete (West Saxon), scete (Mercian) "cloth, covering, towel, shroud," from Proto-Germanic *skautjon-, from *skauta- "project" (cognates: Old Norse skaut, Gothic skauts "seam, hem of a garment;" Dutch schoot; German Schoß "bosom, lap"), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, chase, throw" (see shoot (v.)).

Sense of "piece of paper" first recorded c. 1500; that of "any broad, flat surface" (of metal, open water, etc.) is from 1590s. Of falling rain from 1690s. Meaning "a newspaper" is first recorded 1749. Sheet lightning is attested from 1794; sheet music is from 1857. Between the sheets "in bed" (usually with sexual overtones) is attested from 1590s; to be white as a sheet is from 1751. The first element in sheet-anchor (late 15c.) appears to be a different word, of unknown origin.

sheet (n.2)

"rope that controls a sail," late 13c., shortened from Old English sceatline "sheet-line," from sceata "lower part of sail," originally "piece of cloth," from same root as sheet (n.1). Compare Old Norse skaut, Dutch schoot, German Schote "rope fastened to a sail."

This probably is the notion in phrase three sheets to the wind "drunk and disorganized," first recorded 1812 (in form three sheets in the wind), an image of a sloop-rigged sailboat whose three sheets have slipped through the blocks are lost to the wind, thus "out of control." Apparently there was an early 19c. informal drunkenness scale in use among sailors and involving one, two, and three sheets, three signifying the highest degree of inebriation; there is a two sheets in the wind from 1813.

It must not be wondered at that the poor, untutored, savage Kentuckyan got "more than two thirds drunk," that is, as the sailors term it, three sheets in the wind and the fourth shivering, before the dinner was ended. [Niles' Weekly Register, May 2, 1812]

1. Drop the dough onto a baking sheet with a teaspoon.

用茶匙把生麵團舀到烤盤上。

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2. His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet.

他的頭上纏滿了一層層用床單撕成的繃帶。

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3. Under the newspaper, atop a sheet of paper, lay an envelope.

在報紙下麵的一張紙上放著一個信封。

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4. Vinyl can be laid in sheet or tile form.

塑料地板分為卷材和塊材兩種。

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5. A gust of wind pried loose a section of sheet-metal roofing.

一陣狂風把鋪在屋頂上的一塊金屬片掀起來了。

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