shack

• n. 棚屋；小室
• vi. 居住

詞源不詳，可能來(lái)自 shake 方言變體，引申詞義棚屋，搖晃的破屋。

shack (n.)

1878, American English and Canadian English, of unknown origin, perhaps from Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) xacalli "wooden hut." Or perhaps a back-formation from dialectal English shackly "shaky, rickety" (1843), a derivative of shack, a dialectal variant of shake (v.). Another theory derives shack from ramshackle.

Slang meaning "house" attested by 1910. In early radio enthusiast slang, it was the word for a room or office set aside for wireless use, 1919, perhaps from earlier U.S. Navy use (1917). As a verb, 1891 in the U.S. West in reference to men who "hole up" for the winter; from 1927 as "to put up for the night;" phrase shack up "cohabit" first recorded 1935 (in Zora Neale Hurston).

1. They have since knocked down the shack.

從那以后他們拆掉了簡(jiǎn)陋的棚屋。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. We built a small Hartmann - Shack wavefront sensor for measuring atmospheric disturbance characteristics.

建立了一個(gè)小型Hartmann - Shack波前傳感器來(lái)測(cè)量大氣擾動(dòng)特征.

來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

3. At the very back of the yard, several feet from Lenny, was a wooden shack.

在院子的最后面離倫尼幾英尺遠(yuǎn)的地方有一個(gè)小木屋。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. The Government was keen for people to get married rather than shack up.

政府非常希望人們能正常結(jié)婚而不是未婚同居。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. I moved away from the shack and picked my way among the rubble.

我離開(kāi)木屋，小心地走在瓦礫間。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句