wire

英 [wa??] 美['wa??]

CET4TEM4考研CET6基本詞匯中頻詞

復數:?wires;第三人稱單數:?wires;過去式:?wired;過去分詞:?wired;現在分詞:?wiring;

wire 金屬絲，電線

來自PIE*wei,彎，轉，纏繞，詞源同wind,vine。引申詞義金屬絲。

wire: wire: [OE] Wire probably goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *wi- ‘plait’. Related forms in other Germanic languages have now largely died out. The adjective wireless is first recorded in 1894 (in the term wireless telephone); its use as a noun dates from around 1903.
wire (n.): Old English wir "metal drawn out into a fine thread," from Proto-Germanic *wira- (cognates: Old Norse viravirka "filigree work," Swedish vira "to twist," Old High German wiara "fine gold work"), from PIE *wei- (1) "to turn, twist, plait" (cognates: Old Irish fiar, Welsh gwyr "bent, crooked;" Latin viere "to bend, twist," viri? "bracelets," of Celtic origin). A wire as marking the finish line of a racecourse is attested from 1883; hence the figurative down to the wire. Wire-puller in the political sense is 1848, American English, on the image of pulling the wires that work a puppet.
wire (v.): c. 1300, "adorn with (gold) wire," from wire (n.). From 1859 as "communicate by means of a telegraphic wire;" 1891 as "furnish with electrical wires and connections." Related: Wired; wiring.

1. The one thousand pound bomb was triggered by a wire.: 那顆重達1,000磅的炸彈是由一根導線引爆的。

2. I ripped out the telephone wire that ran through to his office.: 我把通到他辦公室的電話線拔掉了。

3. A youth was inside the car, attempting to hot-wire it.: 一個小青年正在車里試圖用電線短路的方法發動汽車。