喜樂美語
  1. 1（板球）三柱門；也指擊球場地或「讓對方出局」的次數。另有一個和板球無關的意思：小門、便門（大門上開的小門），美式用法還指售票口那種小窗口

    In cricket, a wicket is the target: three wooden sticks (stumps) standing upright in the ground with two small pieces of wood (bails) balanced on top. There is one at each end of the pitch. The throws the ball at it and the batter defends it. From that one object the word grew several linked meanings, and cricket talk moves between them freely. It can mean the dismissal of a batter — "he took three wickets" means he got three batters out. It can mean the strip of ground between the two sets of stumps — "a dry wicket" is about the surface, not the sticks. And a partnership is counted by wickets: "a second-wicket partnership". Well outside cricket, the word has an older, quite separate life meaning a small door or gate, often one cut into a bigger gate, and in American English a small window where you are served — a ticket wicket, a bank wicket. British English also gives us the idiom "on a sticky wicket", meaning in a difficult position, from the days when rain made the pitch hard to bat on. If your students do not follow cricket, the door meaning is the one they are most likely to actually need.

From the word’s history

From Middle English wiket, from Norman French wiket, from Old Norse víkjask 'to move oneself'; compare French guichet.

經諾曼法語 wiket 來自古諾斯語 víkjask「移動」。

Wiktionary

組成From Middle English wiket, borrowed from Old Northern French wiket, which came from an Old Norse verb víkja meaning 'to turn, to move aside, to yield'. The first sense was a small door — the thing that turns aside to let you through. Modern French guichet, a ticket window, comes from the very same source, which is why the American 'service window' meaning fits so neatly.

原始詞典資料16 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。

wicketnoun/ˈwɪkɪt/

  • 1

    A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.

    • ...and one, a cool, bold fellow, whom I know well, will unlock the town gate, and—for he has various talents—hopes, through his influence with a pretty daughter of one of the wardens, to leave unbarred a certain wicket in the postern on the seaward side.
    • He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him.
  • 2

    A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.

    • As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.
  • 3

    A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller

    • Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars. He admired the permanent way, stretching away on either hand, in the moonlight, and the starlight, as far as the eye could reach, as far as Watt's eye could have reached, if it had been inside the station.
  • 4

    a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.

  • 5

    ball-gamescricketgamesOne of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.

    • The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.
  • 6

    ball-gamescricketgamesA dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

    • He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
  • 7

    The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.

    • He kept the wicket.
  • 8

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe period during which two batsmen bat together.

另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe pitch.

  • 10

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

    • The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
  • 11

    Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.

  • 12

    hobbieslifestyleskiingA temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.

  • 13

    dialectalA shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.

    • make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit
  • 14

    businessminingThe space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.

  • 15

    informalAn angle bracket when used in HTML.

  • 16

    biologymedicinenatural-sciencesA device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.

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