purse
英 [p??s]
美[p?s]
- n. (女士)手提袋；(國(guó)家、家庭、團(tuán)體等的) 財(cái)力
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?purses;第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?purses;過(guò)去式:?pursed;過(guò)去分詞:?pursed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?pursing;
中文詞源
purse 錢(qián)包
來(lái)自古英語(yǔ)pursa,錢(qián)包，小袋子，來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)bursa,皮革袋，詞源同bursar,reimburse.
英文詞源
- purse
- purse: [OE] Purse was borrowed into Old English from late Latin bursa (source of English bursar [13] and reimburse [17]), which went back to Greek búrsa. This originally meant ‘skin, leather’, and hence came to be used for ‘wineskin, bag’. The Latin word was also borrowed into the Celtic languages, where it produced Gaelic sporan, source of English sporran.
=> bursar, reimburse, sporran - purse (n.)
- Old English pursa "little bag made of leather," especially for carrying money, from Medieval Latin bursa "leather purse" (source also of Old French borse, 12c., Modern French bourse; see bourse), from Late Latin bursa, variant of byrsa "hide," from Greek byrsa "hide, leather." Change of b- to p- perhaps by influence of Old English pusa, Old Norse posi "bag."
Meaning "woman's handbag" is attested from 1951. Meaning "sum of money collected as a prize in a race, etc.," is from 1640s. Purse-strings, figurative for "control of money," is from early 15c. Purse-snatcher first attested 1902 (earlier purse-picker, 1540s). The notion of "drawn together by a thong" also is behind purse-net (c. 1400). - purse (v.)
- c. 1300, "put in a purse;" c. 1600 as "draw together and wrinkle" (as the strings of a money bag), from purse (n.). Related: Pursed; pursing.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. She looked at me and then reached in her purse for cigarettes.
- 她看看我，接著伸手去包里拿香煙。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. The bank has been too slow in loosening the purse strings.
- 銀行一直遲遲不愿放開(kāi)資金。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. She folded it up, and tucked it into her purse.
- 她將其折疊起來(lái)，塞進(jìn)了錢(qián)包里。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. Sue never carried anything other than the teeniest purse.
- 休從來(lái)都只帶著一只小錢(qián)包。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. Princess Anne does not have a bottomless purse.
- 安妮公主的錢(qián)并非多得取之不盡，用之不竭。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句