• vt. 引导；踢；解雇；使穿靴
• n. 靴子；踢；汽车行李箱
• n. (Boot)人名；(英)布特；(德)博特

1.靴子，来自beat , 击，打，踢。

2.益处，词源不详。主要用于短语to boot, 除此之外。比较级better, 最高级best.

boot

boot: [14] Boot is a comparatively late acquisition by English. It came, either directly or via Old Norse bóti, from Old French bote, whose source is unknown. The modern British sense ‘car’s luggage compartment’ goes back to a 17thcentury term for an outside compartment for attendants on a coach, which may have come directly from modern French botte. The boot of ‘to boot’ is a completely different word. It comes from Old English bōt ‘advantage, remedy’, which can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *bat-, source also of better and best.
=> best, better

boot (n.1)

footwear, early 14c., from Old French bote "boot" (12c.), with corresponding words in Proven?al and Spanish, of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source. Originally for riding boots only. An old Dorsetshire word for "half-boots" was skilty-boots [Halliwell, Wright].

boot (n.2)

"profit, use," Old English bot "help, relief, advantage; atonement," literally "a making better," from Proto-Germanic *boto (see better (adj.)). Compare German Bu?e "penance, atonement," Gothic botha "advantage." Now mostly in phrase to boot (Old English to bote).

boot (v.2)

"start up a computer," 1975, from bootstrap (v.), a 1958 derived verb from bootstrap (n.) in the computer sense.

boot (v.1)

"to kick," 1877, American English, from boot (n.1). Generalized sense of "eject, kick out" is from 1880. Related: Booted; booting.

1. As we drew near, I saw that the boot lid was up.

我们靠近时,我看见汽车行李箱的盖子翘了起来.

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2. They have to be thin, attractive and well-dressed to boot.

她们必须得既苗条又迷人，而且一定要打扮漂亮。

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3. I helped her stow her bags in the boot of the car.

我帮她将包放进汽车行李箱里。

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4. I can boot up from a floppy disk, but that's all.

我可以用一张软盘来启动，但其他的就无能为力了。

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5. He is making money and receiving free advertising to boot!

他既挣了钱，又做了免费的广告！

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