gadget

英 ['g?d??t] 美['g?d??t]

CET6TEM4GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?gadgets;

gadget 不知名的小裝置

詞源不詳，用來指各種不知名的小裝置。拼寫變體widget.

gadget: gadget: [19] Gadget is an elusive sort of word, as vague in its history as it is unspecific in its meaning. It seems to have originated as a piece of sailors’ slang, and is said to have been current as long ago as the 1850s, but the earliest record of it in print is from 1886, in R Brown’s Spun Yarn and Spindrift: ‘Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don’t know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chickenfixing, or a gadjet, or a gill-guy, or a timmeynoggy, or a wim-wom – just pro tem., you know’.

As for its source, suggestions have included French gachette ‘catch of a mechanism’ and French dialect gagée ‘tool’.
gadget (n.): 1886, gadjet (but said by OED corespondents to date from 1850s), sailors' slang word for any small mechanical thing or part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from French gachette "catch-piece of a mechanism" (15c.), diminutive of gache "staple of a lock." OED says derivation from gauge is "improbable."

2. The gadget can be attached to any vertical or near vertical surface.: 該裝置可以裝在任何垂直或近似垂直的平面上。

3. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television.: 孩子們正在為搶奪電視機(jī)的遙控器而爭吵。

4. The gadget is used to artificially inseminate cows.: 這個(gè)器具被用來為母牛實(shí)施人工授精。