bottle: [14] Etymologically, a bottle is a small butt, or barrel. The word comes ultimately from medieval Latin butticula, a diminutive form of late Latin buttis ‘cask’ (whence English butt ‘barrel’). It reached English via Old French botele. The 20th-century British colloquial meaning ‘nerve, courage’ comes from rhyming slang bottle and glass ‘class’. In medieval Latin, a servant who handed wine round at meals and looked after the wine cellar was a buticulārius: hence, via Old French bouteillier and Anglo-Norman buteler, English butler [13]. => butler
bottle (n.)
mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c.
bottle (v.)
1640s, from bottle (n.). Related: Bottled; bottling.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. As I sidestepped, the bottle hit me on the left hip.
我側(cè)一步要躲閃的時(shí)候，瓶子打中了我的左髖部。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. We had a nice meal with a bottle of champagne.
我們美餐了一頓，還喝了一瓶香檳。
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3. I got a bottle of my best malt out of the sideboard.
我從餐具柜里取出一瓶自己收藏的最好的麥芽威士忌。
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4. I haven't come all this way to bottle out.
我一路走來(lái)不是為了在最后關(guān)頭打退堂鼓。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
5. But will anyone have the bottle to go through with it?