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A short pin you push into a hole or wall: a little wooden or metal stick that holds something in place, or that you hang things on.

可以想成一根短短的栓或釘：插進牆上、洞裡，用來把東西固定住，或拿來掛東西。peg 的核心畫面比較像這根「小木栓／小掛…更多收起可以想成一根短短的栓或釘：插進牆上、洞裡，用來把東西固定住，或拿來掛東西。peg 的核心畫面比較像這根「小木栓／小掛鉤」——它的本事就是「卡在那裡、把東西定住或掛住」。後面的曬衣夾、營釘、弦軸、甚至「把價格固定住」，都是這根小栓子的各種變身。

原始詞典資料41 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。

pegnoun/ˈpɛɡ/

  • 1

    A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.

  • 2

    A protrusion used to hang things on.

    • Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
  • 3

    A support; a reason; a pretext.

    • a peg to hang a claim upon
  • 4

    A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.

  • 5

    businessfinanceA fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.

    • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.
  • 6

    A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.

    • This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.
    • The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water.
  • 7

    A place formally allotted for fishing

  • 8

    datedA leg or foot.

    • "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

    • O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am.
    • Did we form ourselves, choosing, and our powers? I find myself, for one, as a stringed instrument with chords and stops - but I have no power to turn the pegs, or pitch my thoughts to a higher or lower key.
  • 10

    A step; a degree.

    • to screw papal authority to the highest peg
    • We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[…]
  • 11

    journalismmediaA topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.

    • […] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.
    • Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs. The process by which a peg is identified is informed by news values.
  • 12

    slangball-gamescricketgamesA stump.

    • Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.
  • 13

    slangThe penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.

    • Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!
  • 14

    archaicslangA serving of brandy and soda.

    • I then ordered a "peg" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent, and returned to have a smoke before turning in again.
  • 15

    A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.

    • This is the sort of drinking that Anna Hazare fought to eradicate from Ralegan Siddhi, as Colonel Phatak explained, after I joked about an army man needing his evening peg of whisky before dinner.
  • 16

    obsoleteslangA shilling.

    • The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
  • 17

    human-sciencespsychologysciencesAn easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.

    • To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.
    • Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg.

pegverb/ˈpɛɡ/

  • 1

    To fasten using a peg.

    • Let's peg the rug to the floor.
  • 2

    To affix or pin.

    • I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
    • She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
  • 3

    To fix a value or price.

    • China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.
    • Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
  • 4

    To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.

  • 5

    slangTo throw.

  • 6

    To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.

  • 7

    slangTo indicate or ascribe an attribute to; to classify or pigeonhole someone.

    • He's been pegged as a suspect.
    • I pegged his weight at 165.
  • 8

    To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.

    • She pegged twelve points.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangTo reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).

    • We pegged the speedometer across the flats.
  • 10

    slangTo engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.

    • When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […]
  • 11

    To keep working hard at something; to peg away.

    • For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […]
  • 12

    archaicslangTo drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.

  • 13

    obsoleteslangTo drive (a hackney carriage).

    • I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me.

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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。