picket
英 ['p?k?t]
美['p?k?t]
- n. 警戒哨；纠察队；[建] 尖木桩
- vt. 派……担任纠察；用尖桩围住
- vi. 担任纠察
- n. (Picket)人名；(英)皮克特
CET6+TEM8低频词扩展词汇
词态变化
复数:?pickets;第三人称单数:?pickets;过去式:?picketed;过去分词:?picketed;现在分词:?picketing;
助记提示
1. pike => picket.
2. which originally meant 'pointed stake'.
2. which originally meant 'pointed stake'.
中文词源
picket （罢工期间纠查妥协分子的）纠察队，纠察员
来自法语piquet,尖木桩，来自piquer,刺，刺穿，词源同pike,pique.原指对抗骑兵的竖在地上的尖刺或木桩，引申词义看守敌人的巡逻队，后引申现词义。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. There are picket lines all over the place.
- 到处都有罢工纠察线。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. No one tried to cross the picket lines.
- 没人试图穿过纠察线。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Fire crews refused to cross the picket line.
- 消防人员拒不冲破围厂队伍人墙。
来自《权威词典》
- 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个漆成白色的木制房子里，屋子前面竖着尖桩篱栅。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The miners are trying to get factory workers to join them on the picket line.
- 矿工正设法让工厂工人加入他们的纠察队人墙。
来自柯林斯例句