pace

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 介词 prep.
中文释义
英 /peɪs/    美 /peɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A step.; A step taken with the foot.
  2. Synonym of Easter.
  3. A step.; The distance covered in a step (or sometimes two), either vaguely or according to various specific set measurements.
    — Even at the duel, standing 10 paces apart, he could have satisfied Aaron’s honor.
  4. A way of stepping.; A manner of walking, running or dancing; the rate or style of how someone moves with their feet.
    — Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
  5. A way of stepping.; Any of various gaits of a horse, specifically a 2-beat, lateral gait.
  6. Speed or velocity in general.
    — For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
  7. A measure of the hardness of a pitch and of the tendency of a cricket ball to maintain its speed after bouncing.
    — He didn't bowl a lot of pace in the first T20I.
  8. A group of donkeys. collective
    — […] but at Broadstairs and other places along the coast, a pace of donkeys stood on the sea-shore expectant (at least, their owners were expectant) of children clamouring to ride.
  9. A passage, a route.; One's journey or route. obsolete
  10. A passage, a route.; A passage through difficult terrain; a mountain pass or route vulnerable to ambush etc. obsolete
    — But when she saw them gone she forward went, / As lay her journey, through that perlous Pace [...].
  11. A passage, a route.; An aisle in a church. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To walk back and forth in a small distance.
    — Groups of men, in all imaginable attitudes, were lying, standing, sitting, or pacing up and down.
  2. To walk along or through sth with regular strides.
  3. To set the speed.
    — I helped her train for the marathon by pacing her on a bike.
  4. To measure by walking.
形容词 adj.
  1. Describing a bowler who bowls fast balls. not-comparable
介词 prep.
  1. With all due respect to. formal
    — She is marvelous here, but he (pace many critics) is no bumpkin

词形变化

paces plural paces present,singular,third-person pacing participle,present paced participle,past paced past paces plural

词汇关系

衍生词
at pace change of pace cinque-pace footpace force the pace gather pace geometrical pace halfpace keep pace keep the pace medium pace mend one's pace paceboard pace bowler pace bowling pace car pace lap paceline pacemaking paceman pace notes pace-of-life syndrome pacer pace-setter pacesetter pace setter pacesetting pace-setting pace stick paceway pacey pick up the pace put one through one's paces quarterpace requiescant in pace requiescat in pace set the pace snail pace snail's pace turn of pace walking pace pacemaker mispace outpace pace off pace oneself pace out repace tachypace

词源

词源 1
From Middle English pase, from Anglo-Norman pas, Old French pas, and their source, Latin passus. Doublet of pas and fathom; compare also pass. Cognate with pass, Spanish pasear, paso.
词源 2
From Latin pāce (“in peace”), ablative form of pāx (“peace”).
词源 3
Alteration of archaic Pasch.
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