- 1堅果殼；幾乎只用在 in a nutshell（簡而言之）這個片語中。
Literally, the hard outer shell of a nut - but almost nobody uses the word this way anymore. Instead, it almost always appears in the phrase "in a nutshell," meaning "to explain something very briefly and simply," fitting a big idea into a very small space, like a nut fits inside its tiny shell.
From the word’s history
From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell; nut + shell.
源自古英文 hnutsċiell，就是 nut「堅果」加 shell「殼」。
組成Nut + shell - literally the shell of a nut.
同家族的字
- shellthe second half of this compound word - the hard covering
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。
nutshellnoun/ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/
- 1
The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
- For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
- 2
A short book summarizing an area of law.
- 3
nauticaltransportA small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.
- [A]t last the fishing-line stood straight out behind, and the stone weights jumped along the tops of the billows, while the seas - notwithstanding the guiding hand of the pilot sought to avoid them - broke over our little nutshell, and sent the spray high above mast and sail.
nutshellverb/ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/
- 1
To summarize (from the term in a nutshell).
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