huddle

英 ['h?d(?)l] 美['h?dl]

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復(fù)數(shù):?huddles;第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?huddles;過(guò)去式:?huddled;過(guò)去分詞:?huddled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?huddling;形容詞:?huddled;

諧音“好多”
1. hide => huddle.

huddle 蜷縮，擠成一團(tuán)

可能來(lái)自PIE*skeu,遮蔽，隱藏，詞源同hide,hut,-le,表反復(fù)。引申詞義蜷縮，擠在一起。

huddle: huddle: [16] Huddle originally meant ‘hide’ (‘to chop off the head of the sentence, and slyly huddle the rest’, James Bell’s translation of Walter Haddon against Orosius 1581), suggesting that it could well be a derivative of the same base as produced English hide (its form indicates that it would have come via a Low German dialect). But virtually from the first huddling was more than just ‘hiding’ – it was ‘hiding in a heap or among a crowd’; and from this has developed the word’s modern meaning ‘crowd or draw together’.
huddle (v.): 1570s, "to heap or crowd together," probably from Low German hudern "to cover, to shelter," from Middle Low German huden "to cover up," from Proto-Germanic *hud- (see hide (v.)). Compare also Middle English hoderen "heap together, huddle" (c. 1300). Related: Huddled; huddling. The noun is from 1580s. U.S. football sense is from 1928.

1. Between plays the coach was talking to the offense in the huddle.: 中場(chǎng)時(shí)，這位教練對(duì)圍攏一圈的進(jìn)攻隊(duì)員進(jìn)行戰(zhàn)術(shù)指導(dǎo)。

2. I remembered a huddle of stone buildings with blind walls.: 我記得一片沒(méi)有窗戶的石頭建筑。

3. We lay there: a huddle of bodies, gasping for air.: 我們橫七豎八地?cái)D作一團(tuán)躺在那里，大口喘著氣。