picket
英 ['p?k?t]
美['p?k?t]
- n. 警戒哨；糾察隊；[建] 尖木樁
- vt. 派……擔任糾察；用尖樁圍住
- vi. 擔任糾察
- n. (Picket)人名；(英)皮克特
CET6+TEM8低頻詞擴展詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?pickets;第三人稱單數:?pickets;過去式:?picketed;過去分詞:?picketed;現在分詞:?picketing;
助記提示
1. pike => picket.
2. which originally meant 'pointed stake'.
2. which originally meant 'pointed stake'.
中文詞源
picket （罷工期間糾查妥協分子的）糾察隊，糾察員
來自法語piquet,尖木樁，來自piquer,刺，刺穿，詞源同pike,pique.原指對抗騎兵的豎在地上的尖刺或木樁，引申詞義看守敵人的巡邏隊，后引申現詞義。
英文詞源
- picket (n.)
- 1680s, "pointed stake (for defense against cavalry, etc.)," from French piquet "pointed stake," from piquer "to pierce" (see pike (n.2)). Sense of "troops posted to watch for enemy" first recorded 1761; that of "striking workers stationed to prevent others from entering a factory" is from 1867. Picket line is 1856 in the military sense, 1945 of labor strikes.
- picket (v.)
- 1745, "to enclose with pickets," from picket (n.). The sense in labor strikes, protests, etc., is attested from 1867. Related: Picketed; picketing.
雙語例句
- 1. There are picket lines all over the place.
- 到處都有罷工糾察線。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. No one tried to cross the picket lines.
- 沒人試圖穿過糾察線。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Fire crews refused to cross the picket line.
- 消防人員拒不沖破圍廠隊伍人墻。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. He lives in a white-painted frame house behind a picket fence up in Connecticut.
- 他住在康涅狄格州北部一個漆成白色的木制房子里，屋子前面豎著尖樁籬柵。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The miners are trying to get factory workers to join them on the picket line.
- 礦工正設法讓工廠工人加入他們的糾察隊人墻。
來自柯林斯例句