ditch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
    — Digging ditches has long been considered one of the most demanding forms of manual labor.
  2. Alternative form of deech. alt-of,alternative,uncountable,usually
  3. A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. Ireland
    — You flung a ditch on my vision Of beauty, love and truth. O stony grey soil of Monaghan You burgled my bank of youth!
动词 v.
  1. To discard or abandon. transitive
    — Once the sun came out we ditched our rain-gear and started a campfire.
  2. Alternative form of deech. alt-of,alternative
  3. To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. ambitransitive
    — When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.
  4. To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. ambitransitive
    — The truant officer caught Louise ditching with her friends, and her parents were forced to pay a fine.
  5. To dig ditches. intransitive
    — Enclosure led to fuller winter employment in hedging and ditching.
  6. To dig ditches around. transitive
    — The soldiers ditched the tent to prevent flooding.
  7. To throw into a ditch. transitive
    — The engine was ditched and turned on its side.

词形变化

ditches plural ditches present,singular,third-person ditching participle,present ditched participle,past ditched past ditches present,singular,third-person ditching participle,present ditched participle,past ditched past ditches plural

词汇关系

近义词
abandon discard dump jettison lose shed
衍生词
ditchable ditch out
相关词
fosse moat The Ditch rhubarb

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
词源 2
From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English dēcan (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.
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