patch
英 [p?t?]
美[p?t?]
- n. 眼罩；斑点；碎片；小块土地
- vt. 修补；解决；掩饰
- vi. 打补丁
- n. (Patch)人名；(英)帕奇
CET4TEM4IELTSGRE考研TOEFLCET6中低频词核心词汇
词态变化
复数:?patches;第三人称单数:?patches;过去式:?patched;过去分词:?patched;现在分词:?patching;
中文词源
patch 小块，斑点，补丁
来自古法语pieche,来自piece方言变体，引申词义小块，斑点，补丁等。插入字母t,比较bake,batch.
英文词源
- patch
- patch: see piece
- patch (v.)
- mid-15c., from patch (n.1). Electronics sense of "to connect temporarily" is attested from 1923. Related: Patched; patching.
- patch (n.1)
- "piece of cloth used to mend another material," late 14c., of obscure origin, perhaps a variant of pece, pieche, from Old North French pieche (see piece (n.)), or from an unrecorded Old English word (but Old English had claeflyhte "a patch"). Phrase not a patch on "nowhere near as good as" is from 1860.
- patch (n.2)
- "fool, clown," 1540s, perhaps from Italian pazzo "fool," of unknown origin. Possibly from Old High German barzjan "to rave" [Klein]. But Buck says pazzo is originally euphemistic, and from Latin patiens "suffering," in medical use, "the patient." Form perhaps influenced by folk etymology derivation from patch (n.1), on notion of a fool's patched garb.
双语例句
- 1. The company I work for went through a rough patch.
- 我所在的公司经历了一段困难时期。
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- 2. He's not a patch on the rest of the Cabinet.
- 他远比不上内阁的其他成员。
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- 3. They tried digging in a patch just below the cave.
- 他们试着在洞穴正下方的一块地上挖掘。
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- 4. There was a patch of waste land behind the church.
- 教堂的后面有一块荒地。
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- 5. Handsome, she thought, but not a patch on Alex.
- 是帅，她想，不过比亚历克斯差远了。
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