tackle

英 ['tæk(ə)l] 美 ['tækl]

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※ 提供单词"tackle"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。

tackle 装备，用具，应付，处理，抢断，阻截

来自中古荷兰语 takel,船帆，索具，来自 taken,抓住，拿到，词源同 take.词义和拼写受 tack 影响，-le,工具格后缀。引申诸相关词义。

tackle (n.): mid-13c., "apparatus, gear," especially the rigging of a ship, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel "the rigging of a ship," perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken "grasp, seize" (see take (v.)), or perhaps from root of tack (n.1), which, if not the origin, has influenced the sense. Meaning "apparatus for fishing" is recorded from late 14c. Meaning "device for grasping and shifting or moving" is from 1530s. Meaning "act of tackling" in the sporting sense is recorded from 1876 (see tackle (v.)); as the name of a position in North American football, it is recorded from 1884. Welsh tacl is fro English.
tackle (v.): mid-14c., "entangle, involve," from tackle (n.). Sense of "to furnish (a ship) with tackles" is from c. 1400; meaning "to harness a horse" is recorded from 1714. The meaning "lay hold of, come to grips with, attack" is attested from 1828, described by Webster that year as "a common popular use of the word in New England, though not elegant;" figurative sense of "try to deal with" (a task or problem) is from 1840. The verb in the sporting sense first recorded 1867, "to seize and stop." Related: Tackled; tackling.

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1. Ecological groups say that nothing is being done to tackle the problem.: 环境保护组织称目前并未采取任何行动处理这个问题。

2. Time and again political parties have failed to tackle this issue.: 各个政党处理这个问题时都屡屡失败。

4. The young footballer collapsed in a heap after a heavy tackle.: 年青的足球队员完成激烈的阻截后瘫倒在地动弹不得。

5. The government is not simply relying on trickle-down economics to tackle poverty.: 政府并没有仅仅依赖垂滴经济学来解决贫困。