P

英 [pi:] 美 [pi]

解释

※ 提供单词"P"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

P 英语字母表的第十六个字母

来自希腊字母pi, 来自原始西奈字母peh, 嘴。

P: a rare letter in the initial position in Germanic, in part because by Grimm's Law PIE p- became Germanic f-; even with the early Latin borrowings in Old English, -p- takes up a little over 4 pages in J.R. Clark Hall's "Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary," compared to 31 pages for B and more than 36 for F. But it now is the third-most-common initial letter in the English vocabulary, and with C and S comprises nearly a third of the dictionary, a testimony to the flood of words that have entered the language since 1066 from Latin, Greek, and French.

To mind one's Ps and Qs (1779), possibly is from confusion of these letters among children learning to write. Another theory traces it to old-time tavern-keepers tracking their patrons' bar tabs in pints and quarts. But see also to be P and Q (1610s), "to be excellent," a slang phrase said to derive from prime quality.

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3. At approxi-mately 11:30 p.m., Pollard finally gave his consent to the search.: 大概晚上11点半的时候，波拉德最终同意进行搜查。

5. By the third lap Kinkead had touched 289 m.p.h.: 到第三圈时，金基德的车速达到了每小时289英里。