loo

英 [luː] 美 [lu]

解释

n. 厕所，洗手间；赌金；卢牌戏（一种纸牌赌博）
vt. 使罚赌金
n. (Loo)人名；(德、法)洛

※ 提供单词"loo"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。

中文词源

loo 厕所

俚语词，可能来自Waterloo,抽水马桶品牌，或直接来自拟声词，抽水马桶冲水声。

英文词源

loo: loo: [20] Loo presents one of the more celebrated puzzles of English etymology. Not the least of its problematical points is that there is no reliable evidence of its existence before the 1920s, whereas most of its suggested sources have a more dated air than that. Amongst them, the most widely touted is of course gardy loo!, a shout of warning (based on French gardez l’eau ‘beware of the water’) supposedly used when emptying chamber pots from upper-storey windows in the days before modern plumbing; but that is chronologically most unlikely.

Other possibilities are that it is short for Waterloo, which was a trade name for cast-iron lavatory cisterns in the early part of the 20th century (‘O yes, mon loup. How much cost? Waterloo. Watercloset’, James Joyce, Ulysses 1922), and that it comes from louvre, from the use of slatted screens for a makeshift lavatory. But perhaps the likeliest explanation is that it derives from French lieux d’aisances, literally ‘places of ease’, hence ‘lavatory’ (perhaps picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I).
loo (n.1): "lavatory," 1940, but perhaps 1922, probably from French lieux d'aisances, "lavatory," literally "place of ease," picked up by British servicemen in France during World War I. Or possibly a pun on Waterloo, based on water closet.
loo (n.2): type of card game, 1670s, short for lanterloo (1660s), from French lanturelu, originally (1620s) the refrain of a popular comic song; according to French sources the refrain expresses a mocking refusal or an evasive answer and was formed on the older word for a type of song chorus, turelure; apparently a jingling reduplication of loure "bagpipe" (perhaps from Latin lura "bag, purse").
From its primary signification -- a kind of bagpipe inflated from the mouth -- the word 'loure' came to mean an old dance, in slower rhythm than the gigue, generally in 6-4 time. As this was danced to the nasal tones of the 'loure,' the term 'loure' was gradually applied to any passage meant to be played in the style of the old bagpipe airs. ["Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians," London, 1906]
The refrain sometimes is met in English as turra-lurra.

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例句和用法

1. The shop stocks everything from cigarettes to recycled loo paper.: 商店货品齐全，从香烟到再生厕纸应有尽有。

2. I asked if I could go to the loo.: 我问是否可以上厕所。

3. She's gone to the loo.: 她去盥洗室了。

4. The kernel function model selected by LOO estimation can approach the best value satisfactorily.: 应用LOO估算选择的核函数模型能够较好地退近最佳值.

5. In British English the toilet in private houses is called the lavatory, toilet, WC ( dated ), or loo ( informal ): 在英式英语中,私人住宅中的厕所称为thelavatory, toilet, WC ( 已陈旧 ) 或loo ( 用于口语 ).