clipper

英 ['klɪpə] 美 ['klɪpɚ]

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※ 提供单词"clipper"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。

clipper 剪具

来自clip,剪。

clipper (n.): late 14c., "sheepshearer;" early 15c., "a barber;" c. 1300 as a surname; agent noun from Middle English clippen "shorten" (see clip (v.1)). The type of fast sailing ship so called from 1823 (in Cooper's "The Pilot"), probably from clip (v.1) in sense of "to move or run rapidly," hence early 19c. sense "person or animal who looks capable of fast running." Perhaps originally simply "fast ship," regardless of type:
Well, you know, the Go-along-Gee was one o' your flash Irish cruisers -- the first o' your fir-built frigates -- and a clipper she was! Give her a foot o' the sheet, and she'd go like a witch--but somehow o'nother, she'd bag on a bowline to leeward. ["Naval Sketch-Book," by "An officer of rank," London, 1826]
The early association of the ships was with Baltimore, Maryland. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper "swift horse," echoic (Clipper appears as the name of an English race horse in 1831). In late 18c., the word principally meant "one who cuts off the edges of coins" for the precious metal.

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2. Late in 1935 American clipper planes began trans - Pacific flight.: 1935年底,美国的远程客机开始了横越太平洋的飞行.

4. He clipped off the few hairs of his spare beard with a fingernail clipper.: 他用一把指甲剪剪去几根胡须.

5. When you hand clipper, it is located near your thumb.: 当你手握轧刀时, 此手柄就位于大拇指附近,调节起来非常方便.