喜樂美語

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You can picture a rope as a thick, strong cord made by twisting many thin threads together. It is something you hold, pull on, tie things with, or hang on to — a strong line that connects, binds, or supports.

可以想成一條把許多細線絞在一起、又粗又有力的繩子。它是你能抓住、能拉、能拿來綁東西、能攀著的那條東西——一條用來連結…更多收起可以想成一條把許多細線絞在一起、又粗又有力的繩子。它是你能抓住、能拉、能拿來綁東西、能攀著的那條東西——一條用來連結、捆綁或支撐的堅韌的線。

原始詞典資料24 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。

ropenoun詞源 1/ɹəʊp/

  • 1

    Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

    • Nylon rope is usually stronger than similar rope made of plant fibers.
  • 2

    An individual length of such material.

    • The swinging bridge is constructed of 40 logs and 30 ropes.
    • All at once, let’s heave on the rope!
  • 3

    A cohesive strand of something.

    • The duchess wore a rope of pearls to the soirée.
    • Jimmy began to scream and ropes of spit shot from his mouth.
  • 4

    datedA continuous stream.

    • The principle of any such device should be to pull on the vessel by a rope of water passing in at the bow and out at the stern.
  • 5

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA hard line drive.

    • He hit a rope past third and into the corner.
  • 6

    ceramicschemistryengineeringA long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.

  • 7

    computercomputingengineeringA data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.

  • 8

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.

另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

    • The central strip of the loka, the Middle World, represents its smallest area, being only one rope wide and one hundred thousand leagues high, […]
  • 10

    jewelrylifestyleA necklace of at least one meter in length.

  • 11

    nauticaltransportCordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.

  • 12

    archaicA unit of length equal to twenty feet.

  • 13

    slangRohypnol.

  • 14

    slangSemen being ejaculated.

    • shooting ropes
  • 15

    Death by hanging.

    • The murderer was sentenced to the rope.
  • 16

    An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.

  • 17

    An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.

ropeverb詞源 2/ɹəʊp/

  • 1

    To tie (something) with rope.

    • The robber roped the victims.
  • 2

    To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

    • The cowboy roped the calf.
  • 3

    To climb by means of a rope or ropes.

    • We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.
  • 4

    To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.

    • Let us not hang like roping icicles / Upon our houses' thatch.
  • 5

    To pull or restrain (the horse one is riding) to prevent it from winning a race.

    • Others, a shade more advanced, have been known to bribe a jockey to "hold," "rope" a horse, or a stableman to poison or stupefy him.
  • 6

    To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.

    • My life is a mess; I might as well rope.
    • In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]

ropenoun詞源 3/ɹəʊp/

  • 1

    The small intestines.

    • the ropes of birds

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。