picnic

英 ['p?kn?k] 美['p?kn?k]

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復數:?picnics;第三人稱單數:?picnics;過去式:?picnicked;過去分詞:?picnicked;現在分詞:?picnicking;

picnic 野餐

來自法語pique-nique,來自pique,撿，拾，詞源同pick.nique可能為pique同韻構詞。用以指過去每個人準備一份食物的聚餐社交活動，可在室內，也可以室外，但現僅指室外野餐。

picnic: picnic: [18] Picnic was borrowed from French piquenique, a word which seems to have originated around the end of the 17th century. It is not clear where it came from, but one theory is that it was based on the verb piquer ‘pick, peck’ (source of English pick), with the rhyming nique perhaps added in half reminiscence of the obsolete nique ‘trifle’. Originally the word denoted a sort of party to which everyone brought along some food; the notion of an ‘outdoor meal’ did not emerge until the 19th century.
picnic (n.): 1748 (in Chesterfield's "Letters"), but rare before c. 1800 as an English institution; originally a fashionable pot-luck social affair, not necessarily out of doors; from French piquenique (1690s), perhaps a reduplication of piquer "to pick, peck," from Old French (see pike (n.2)), or the second element may be nique "worthless thing," from a Germanic source. Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1886. Picnic table recorded from 1926, originally a folding table.
picnic (v.): "go on a picnic," 1842, from picnic (n.). Related: Picnicked; picnicking. The -k- is inserted to preserve the "k" sound of -c- before a suffix beginning in -i-, -y-, or -e- (compare traffic/trafficking, panic/panicky, shellac/shellacked).

3. We punted up towards Grantchester and had a picnic in a meadow.: 我們乘坐平底長船溯河而上到格蘭切斯特，在草地上舉行野餐。

4. Primrose was given an apple, left over from our picnic lunch.: 我們中午野餐剩下的一個蘋果給了普麗姆羅絲。