ditch

英 [dɪtʃ] 美 [dɪtʃ]

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※ 提供单词"ditch"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。

ditch 沟渠

词源同dig, dike. 插入字母t, 比较bake, batch.

ditch: ditch: [OE] Like its close relative dyke [13], ditch probably comes ultimately from a long-lost language once spoken on the shores of the Baltic. Its source-word seems to have represented an all-embracing notion of ‘excavation’, including not just the hole dug but also the mound formed from the excavated earth (which perhaps supports the suggestion that dig belongs to the same word-family). This dichotomy of sense is preserved in dyke, whose original meaning, from Old Norse dík, was ‘ditch’, but which came in the 15th century to denote ‘embankment’ (probably under the influence of Middle Dutch dijc ‘dam’).
=> dig, dyke
ditch (n.): Old English dic "ditch, dike," a variant of dike (q.v.). Last ditch (1715) refers to the last line of military defenses.
ditch (v.): late 14c., "surround with a ditch; dig a ditch;" from ditch (n.). Meaning "to throw into a ditch" is from 1816, hence sense of "abandon, discard," first recorded 1899 in American English. Of aircraft, by 1941. Related: Ditched; ditching.

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2. Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.: 我们仅能依稀辨出桥下一条杂草丛生的窄沟。

3. She underwent a heart transplant in a last-ditch attempt to save her.: 她动了心脏移植手术，这是为挽救她的生命而作的最后一次努力。

5. With the blind leading the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.: 如果瞎子替瞎子带路的话, 那么两方肯定会掉到沟里.