mop

英 [m?p]美[mɑp]

CET6+TEM4CET6低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?mops;第三人稱單數(shù):?mops;過去式:?mopped;過去分詞:?mopped;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mopping;

mop?[m?p]?拖把——抹布
2. mop (音：毛撲，用毛撲地，音：抹潑，又抹地又潑水地拖地)拖把

mop 拖把

來自拉丁語nappa,抹布，布料，詞源同map,napkin,apron.引申詞義拖把。

mop: mop: [15] Mop first appeared in the guise mappe, a late 15th-century sailors’ term for an improvised brush used for caulking ships’ seams with tar. The modern form mop, presumably the same word, did not emerge until the mid-17thcentury. It may be a truncation of an earlier mapple ‘mop’ [15], which came from late Latin mappula ‘towel, cloth’, a diminutive form of Latin mappa ‘cloth’ (source of English map).
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mop (n.): late 15c., mappe "bundle of yarn, etc., fastened to the end of a stick for cleaning or spreading pitch on a ship's decks," from Walloon (French) mappe "napkin," from Latin mappa "napkin" (see map (n.)). Modern spelling by 1660s. Of hair, from 1847. Grose ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," Grose, 1788] has mopsqueezer "A maid servant, particularly a housemaid."
mop (v.): 1709, from mop (n.). Related: Mopped; mopping.

1. He was long-limbed and dark-eyed, with a mop of tight, dark curls.: 他四肢修長、眼睛烏黑發(fā)亮，留著一頭蓬亂濃密的黑色卷發(fā)。

3. The hotel cleaner entered carrying a bucket and a mop.: 旅館清潔工拿著水桶和拖把進(jìn)來.

4. The houseboy comes to mop our kitchen floor twice a week.: 男仆每周兩次到我家來拖洗廚房地板.