替你做苦工的小裝置
直接承接核心:以平凡男子 Jack 命名、默默幫你出力或接線的小機器。
a jack (lifting tool) · noun · B2
A tool used to lift a heavy thing, like a car, off the ground and hold it up in the air.
千斤頂
Behind almost every meaning sits the man's name Jack — for centuries the , 'any common fellow'. From there English used 'jack' for small machines and that quietly do a working man's job, and for small stand-in objects named after the fellow. So picture a humble little helper-thing named after an ordinary guy: that thread runs through the lifting tool, the socket, the small game pieces, and even the card with the young man on it.
Jack, a familiar form of John, became the generic name for 'any common fellow' (mirroring French Jacques). From the late 14c. it was applied to mechanical contrivances that 'do the work of common servants', and by 1703 specifically to the device for raising heavy weights.
Jack 本是 John 的暱稱,後來變成「隨便一個普通男子」的通稱(和法文 Jacques 一樣)。從十四世紀末起,這個名字被借去稱那些「替人做僕役粗活」的機械裝置,到 1703 年更專指「把重物從下往上頂起來」的工具。
etymonline.com/word/Jack
Four branches
替你做苦工的小裝置
直接承接核心:以平凡男子 Jack 命名、默默幫你出力或接線的小機器。
a jack (lifting tool) · noun · B2
A tool used to lift a heavy thing, like a car, off the ground and hold it up in the air.
千斤頂
畫著小夥子的那張牌
這裡直接回到「Jack=年輕小夥子」的本義:撲克牌上那個比皇后小、地位低一階的年輕男子,就以這位平凡小夥命名。
the jack (playing card) · noun · B1
A playing card with a picture of a young man on it, worth more than a ten and less than a queen.
撲克牌 J
遊戲裡的小子與目標球
沿用「以這位小夥命名、體積小的小東西」這層意思:遊戲裡那些要去抓、去靠近的小物件,都借 jack 之名。
jacks (children's game) · noun · B2
jacks — a children's game where players pick up small metal pieces while bouncing and catching a ball.
抓子遊戲
粗俗口語:啥都沒有
從「Jack=隨便哪個阿貓阿狗、最普通最不值錢的東西」滑向「連最起碼的一點都沒有」,成了強調「一無所有」的粗話。
jack (slang, nothing/anything) · noun · B2
In rude American slang, jack means 'anything at all' — used to say someone knows or has nothing.
啥都沒有(粗俗)
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。
Jackname/ˈd͡ʒæk/
A unisex given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.
A surname.
Jack Daniel's, a brand of Tennessee whiskey.
An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama, United States.
An unincorporated community in Dent County, Missouri, United States.
Jacknoun/ˈd͡ʒæk/
informalA placeholder or conventional name for any man, particularly a younger, lower-class man.
A jacqueminot rose.
jacknoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒæk/
A coarse medieval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
jacknoun詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒæk/
A man.
A man.
A man.
slangA man.
archaicA man.
A man.
historicalslangA man.
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
artscraftsglassblowingA mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
obsoleteA mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
A mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
archaicbusinessminingA mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
obsoleteA mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
obsoleteA mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA mechanical device or utensil used for lifting.
historicalregionalA non-tool object or thing.
card-gamesgamesA non-tool object or thing.
obsoleteA non-tool object or thing.
A non-tool object or thing.
nauticaltransportA non-tool object or thing.
archaichistoricalregionalA non-tool object or thing.
obsoleteslangA non-tool object or thing.
archaichistoricalnauticaltransportA non-tool object or thing.
gamesA non-tool object or thing.
A non-tool object or thing.
slangA non-tool object or thing.
A non-tool object or thing.
slangA non-tool object or thing.
slangball-gamescricketgamesA non-tool object or thing.
slangA non-tool object or thing.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
A plant or animal.
jackverb詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒæk/
To physically raise using a jack.
To raise or increase.
To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone).
To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
vulgarTo jack off, to masturbate.
To fight.
informalTo jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
jackadj詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒæk/
Tired, disillusioned; fed up (with).
jacknoun詞源 3/ˈd͡ʒæk/
The jackfruit.
jacknoun詞源 4/ˈd͡ʒæk/
A plant of the species Mangifera caesia.
jacknoun詞源 5/ˈd͡ʒæk/
slangball-gamesbaseballgamesA home run.
jackverb詞源 5/ˈd͡ʒæk/
slangball-gamesbaseballgamesTo hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。