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You can picture 'drill' as a tool spinning round and round very fast to bore a hole into something hard. Two big ideas grow out of that spinning tool: making a hole by turning, and — through soldiers 'turning' in their training manoeuvres — the idea of doing the same routine over and over until it's second nature. (The thick cloth called 'drill' is an unrelated word that just happens to be spelled the same.)
可以想成一把工具飛快地『一圈圈轉動』,在硬東西上鑽出一個洞。從這個旋轉的工具長出兩大支:一是『靠轉動鑽出洞』,二是—…更多收起
可以想成一把工具飛快地『一圈圈轉動』,在硬東西上鑽出一個洞。從這個旋轉的工具長出兩大支:一是『靠轉動鑽出洞』,二是——因為士兵在訓練裡反覆『轉身、操演』——延伸出『同一套動作一遍遍重複到變本能』的意思。(另外那種叫 drill 的粗棉布,是個剛好同拼字、但來源不同的詞。)原始詞典資料27 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
drillverb詞源 1/dɹɪl/
- 1
To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
- 2
To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
- On his return the team that faced Hull City had been reconfigured. Moses wasn’t overly drilled, just told he would be playing right wing-back, that Conte had seen enough to know.
- 3
To cause to drill (practice); to train, especially in military arts.
- The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
- He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
- 4
To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
- 5
To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
- 6
To throw, run, hit or kick with a lot of power.
- He drilled down the court and made a three-pointer.
- He drilled the ball to his teammate.
- 7
ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- 8
vulgarslangTo have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- Everytime^([sic]) when I rape your daughter. Your beautiful faces expressing how it hurts. Always while I drill her c*nt. I want to see you dead.
- Guess I'll be drilling her butt
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
slangTo shoot; to kill by shooting.
- ‘Matthew Garth woulda let Tom Dunstan drill him insteada drawin’ against him.’
drillnoun詞源 1/dɹɪl/
- 1
A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- Wear safety glasses when operating an electric drill.
- 2
The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- Use a drill with a wire brush to remove any rust or buildup.
- 3
An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
- fire drill
- disaster drill
- 4
A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- At today's practice, the football team performed a variety of goalkeeping drills.
- 5
Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
- 6
entertainmentlifestylemusicA style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- Though the young women of Chicago’s drill scene can be as rowdy as their male counterparts, they’re also more diverse in subject matter and point to a possible way forward.
- New York City mayor Eric Adams held a summit with a group of drill rappers on Tuesday night and clarified he doesn’t actually want to ban their music, days after he appeared to blame the music scene for the recent shooting deaths of two young New York rappers and suggested drill videos be pulled from the internet.
- 7
entertainmentlifestylemusicA single performance of drill music.
- These bells are alarmin’ Point blank and you missed your target They go shooting range and their drills are garbage
drillnoun詞源 2/dɹɪl/
- 1
An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- I found down at the side of the house the remains of what must have once been a kitchen garden. Everything was choked with weeds and scutch grass, but the outlines of bed and drill were still there.
- 2
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- 3
A row of seed sown in a furrow.
drillverb詞源 2/dɹɪl/
- 1
To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
drillnoun詞源 3/dɹɪl/
- 1
obsoleteA small trickling stream; a rill.
- Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills.
drillverb詞源 3/dɹɪl/
- 1
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- waters drilled through a sandy stratum
- Now it is a great square profunditie ; greene , and uneven at the bottome : into which a barren spring doch drill from betweene the stones of the North - ward wall
drillverb詞源 4/dɹɪl/
- 1
obsoletedialectalTo protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
- Quit purposely drilling out the time hoping that someone else will do your chores.
- 2
obsoletedialectalTo entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
- He tells me with great passion that she has bubbled him out of his youth; that she drilled him on to five and fifty [years old], and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old age, if she can find her account in another.
- 3
obsoletedialectalTo cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
- August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
drillnoun詞源 5/dɹɪl/
- 1
An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
drillnoun詞源 6/dɹɪl/
- 1
A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。