喜樂美語
  1. 1長筒軍靴（穿到膝蓋的士兵靴）。英文也常用來比喻暴力、高壓的統治，不只是鞋子。

    A jackboot is a soldier’s boot that comes up to the knee. It is heavy, usually leather, the kind of tall military boot you might see in an old army photograph or a museum. In English the word has a strong second life: people say “jackboot tactics” or that a country is “under the jackboot” when they mean rule by soldiers, fear, and force, not just . That stretch became especially sharp in the twentieth century, when the boot stood in for brutal army power. So if you only mean a tall boot in a fashion shop, knee-high boot is the cooler, more neutral phrase; jackboot drags soldiers — and often cruelty — into the room. The jack here is not the man’s name; it goes with an old word for a protective military coat.

組成From Old French jaque, a coat of mail (a protective jacket), plus boot. The jack in this word is that old military-coat word, not the name Jack.

同家族的字

  • jacketboth go back to Old French jaque, a kind of coat
  • bootthe footwear half of the compound

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

jackbootnoun/ˈd͡ʒækbuːt/

  • 1

    A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.

    • On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an old plumed hat; […]
    • There was a wonderful variety of costume to be seen and studied among the persons around me, […] other soldiers in helmets and jackboots; French officers of various uniform; monks and priests; attendants, in old-fashioned and gorgeous livery; […] so that, in any other country, the scene might have been taken for a fancy ball.
  • 2

    informalThe spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.

    • That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.

jackbootverb/ˈd͡ʒækbuːt/

  • 1

    To stamp on with a jackboot.

    • The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.
  • 2

    To march in jackboots.

    • All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo.

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