punt
英 [p?nt]
美[p?nt]
- n. 踢懸空球；平底船；下賭注者
- vt. 推掉工作; 踢懸空球
- vi. 棄踢；撒手不干；乘方頭平底船；下賭注
- n. (Punt)人名；(南非)蓬特
低頻詞擴展詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?punts;第三人稱單數:?punts;過去式:?punted;過去分詞:?punted;現在分詞:?punting;
中文詞源
punt 方頭平底船
來自古英語punt,來自拉丁語ponto,平底船，來自pons,橋，來自PIE*pent,走，小徑，詞源同path,pontifical.
punt 愛爾蘭鎊來自愛爾蘭語punt,來自古英語pund,詞源同pound.
punt 賭博，打賭來自法語ponte,點，詞源同point.原用于一種紙牌點數賭博游戲。
punt 踢凌空球擬聲詞，模仿踢球的聲音。
英文詞源
- punt
- punt: English has three separate words punt. The oldest is punt ‘flat-bottomed boat’ [15], which comes via Middle Low German punte or punto from Latin pontō, a term for a sort of Gaulish boat which also produced English pontoon. Punt ‘bet’ [18] (better known in the form of the agent noun punter ‘better’, hence ‘customer’) comes from French ponter, a derivative of ponte ‘bet against the banker in certain card games’.
This was adapted from Spanish punto ‘point’, a descendant of Latin punctum (source of English point). Punt ‘kick’ [19] may be a variant of bunt ‘push’ [19] (now used as a baseball term, meaning ‘hit the ball softly’); this could in turn be an alteration of butt, but it might also come from a Celtic source, related to Breton bounta ‘butt’.
=> pontoon; point, punctuation - punt (n.1)
- "kick," 1845; see punt (v.).
- punt (n.2)
- "flat-bottomed river boat," late Old English punt, perhaps an ancient survival of British Latin ponto "flat-bottomed boat" (see OED), a kind of Gallic transport (Caesar), also "floating bridge" (Gellius), from Latin pontem (nominative pons) "bridge" (see pontoon). Or from or influenced by Old French cognate pont "large, flat boat."
- punt (v.)
- "to kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground," 1845, first in a Rugby list of football rules, perhaps from dialectal punt "to push, strike," alteration of Midlands dialect bunt "to push, butt with the head," of unknown origin, perhaps echoic. Student slang meaning "give up, drop a course so as not to fail," 1970s, is because a U.S. football team punts when it cannot advance the ball. Related: Punted; punting.
雙語例句
- 1. The investment is little more than a punt.
- 這項投資無異于一場賭博。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. The referee told him to punt or kick the ball off the ground.
- 裁判告訴他可以碰踢或定點開球。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He caught a punt and scored the winning touchdown, with a minute left to play.
- 他接住對方的棄踢球，成功達陣，取得了制勝得分，此時比賽只剩最后一分鐘。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. She soon learned to punt.
- 她很快就學會了撐方頭平底船.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Never punt a gnome without due cause.
- 不要隨便踢侏儒.
來自互聯網
