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tattoo 1 AHD[tă-to͞o′] D.J.[tæˈtuː]K.K.[tæˈtu]n.(名词)pl. tat.toos 【复数】- A signal sounded on a drum or bugle to summon soldiers or sailors to their quarters at night.归营号:一种用鼓或军号奏出的命令士兵或水兵在夜晚返回其驻地的信号
- A display of military exercises offered as evening entertainment.夜间野外军事演习:作为夜间一种娱乐活动的军事演习表演
- A continuous, even drumming or rapping.连续而均匀地击鼓或轻叩
v.(动词)tat.tooed, tat.too.ing, tat.toos v.intr.(不及物动词)- To beat out an even rhythm, as with the fingers.敲打出一段平滑的节奏,如用手指
v.tr.(及物动词)- To beat or tap rhythmically on; rap or drum on.在…上有节奏地敲击或轻叩;叩或敲打
- Alteration of Dutch taptoe [tap-shut (closing time for taverns), tattoo] 荷兰语 taptoe的变化 [关闭酒桶龙头的时间(酒馆的关门时间),归营号]
- tap [spigot, tap] from Middle Dutch tappe tap [塞栓,塞子] 源自 中古荷兰语 tappe
- toe [shut] from Middle Dutch * see de- toe [被关闭的] 源自 中古荷兰语 * 参见 de-
tattoo 2 AHD[tă-to͞o′] D.J.[tæˈtuː]K.K.[tæˈtu]n.(名词)【复数】 tat.toos - A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars.纹身:一种永久性的记号或图案,通过刺和刻上一种抹不掉的颜料或通过使凸起疤痕而在皮肤上留下
v.tr.(及物动词)tat.tooed, tat.too.ing, tat.toos - To mark (the skin) with a tattoo.刺花纹于(皮肤)上
- To form (a tattoo) on the skin.在皮肤上刺(花纹)
- [Of Polynesian origin] [源于波利尼西亚语]
tattooʹer n.(名词)tattooʹist n.(名词)注释- The practice of tattooing the body is prehistoric,but the English wordtattoo was introduced fairly recently. Our word came from Polynesian languages such as Tahitian and Samoanand was introduced to English speakers by the explorer Capt. James Cook (who also gave us the wordtaboo ). The earliest use of the verbtattoo in English is found in 1769 in his account of a voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. Cook also used a noun in his writings of 1769but treated it as a native wordso he is not given credit for the first use of the noun in English (recorded in 1777).In any event,sailors introduced the custom into Europe from the Pacific societies in which it was practiced,and it has remained associated with sailors,although many other people have tattoos as well.尽管在身体上刺出花纹这一做法在史前就已存在,但英语中tattoo 一词却是在距离现在较近的时候才被引入的。 我们这个词源于塔西提语或萨摩亚语等波利尼西亚语族,它是由探险家詹姆斯·库克船长介绍给英语使用者的(库克同时也给了我们taboo 一词)。 动词tattoo 在英语中的首次使用见于库克关于他在1768年-1771年所做的一次环球航行记录中。 库克在他1769年的日志中也把这个词用作一个名词,但因为他只是把它作为一个土著人的词汇对待,所以人们不认为他是第一个在英语中使用该词名词形式的人(记录于1777年)。但不管怎样,是水手们将这种原本是太平洋岛屿社会中的习俗带入欧洲的,所以直到今天这种做法仍然和水手们联系在一起,虽然各种职业的人们都在身上刺花纹
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