nickel

英 ['nɪk(ə)l] 美 ['nɪkl]

解释

n. 镍；镍币；五分镍币
vt. 镀镍于
n. (Nickel)人名；(德、英)尼克尔

※ 提供单词"nickel"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

nickel 镍，分币

来自瑞典语kopparnickel,铜矿，铜矿中的魔鬼，来自koppar,铜，即copper,nickel,魔鬼，常见名Nicholas的昵称，来自古英语Old Nick,魔鬼。一种铜矿中的杂质，被矿工戏称为魔鬼，后研究证明该杂质实为镍。镍常被用于铸造钱币，即分币，以代替更昂贵的铜钱。

英文词源

nickel: nickel: [18] The element nickel was named in 1754 by the Swedish mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt. The word he chose was a truncated form of kupfernickel, a term formerly used by German miners for niccolite, a nickle-bearing ore. This meant literally ‘copperdemon’, an allusion probably to the fact that niccolite looks as though it contains copper, but does not. The -nickel part of the term represents a pet form of the name Nikolaus, perhaps chosen for its resemblance to German nix ‘water-sprite’. Nickel was first used for a US five-cent coin (made of a copper and nickel alloy) in the 1880s.
nickel (n.): whitish metal element, 1755, coined in 1754 by Swedish mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt (1722-1765) from shortening of Swedish kopparnickel "copper-colored ore" (from which it was first obtained), a half-translation of German Kupfernickel, literally "copper demon," from Kupfer (see copper) + Nickel "demon, goblin, rascal" (a pet form of masc. proper name Nikolaus, compare English Old Nick "the devil;" see Nicholas); the ore so called by miners because it looked like copper but yielded none.

Meaning "coin made partly of nickel" is from 1857, when the U.S. introduced one-cent coins made of nickel to replace the old bulky copper pennies. Application to five-cent piece (originally one part nickel, three parts copper) is from 1883, American English; in earlier circulation there were silver half-dimes. To nickel-and-dime (someone) is from 1964 (nickels and dimes "very small amounts of money" is attested from 1893).

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例句和用法

1. Nickel can be used for making coins.: 镍可做成钱币.

2. May I have a nickel?: 能给我五分钱吗 ?

3. In the squares place a penny, nickel, dime and quarter in that order. The object is to reverse the order of these coins.: 在这些方块中按顺序放置1分、5分、10分和25分的硬币各一枚。目标是颠倒这些硬币的顺序。

4. He immediately used the same nickel to buy one of Billy's cakes.: 他立即用同样的五美分币买了比利的一块蛋糕.

5. Metals commonly mixed with gold are nickel, platinum, and copper.: 通常与金混合的金属有镍、铂和铜.