wicket

英 [ˈwɪk.ɪt]      美 [ˈwɪk.ɪt]
  • n. 小门;三柱门;边门;售票窗
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wicket 三柱门

来自PIE*weik,弯,转,编织,词源同wicker,vicarious.引申词义小门,篱笆门,后用于指板球的三柱门。词义演变比较hurdle.

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wicket: [13] A wicket was originally a ‘small gate’, and etymologically the word appears to denote something that ‘turns’ – presumably on a hinge in opening and closing. It was borrowed from Old Northern French wiket, which in turn came from a Germanic source represented also by modern Swedish vika ‘fold, turn’. The set of stumps originally used for cricket resembled a gate – indeed the game’s first batsmen may have defended an actual gate in a sheep pen – and so it came to be known as a wicket. This was in the 18th century; the extension of the term to the ‘pitch’ dates from the mid 19th century.
wicket (n.)
early 13c., "small door or gate," especially one forming part of a larger one, from Anglo-French wiket, Old North French wiket (Old French guichet, Norman viquet) "small door, wicket, wicket gate," probably from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vik "nook," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (see weak). The notion is of "something that turns." Cricket sense of "set of three sticks defended by the batsman" is recorded from 1733; hence many figurative phrases in British English.
1. The fielders crouch around the batsman's wicket.
防守队员蹲伏在击球手守卫的三柱门周围。
2. Defending his wicket watchfully, the last man is playing out time.
最后一名球员小心地守着他的三柱门, 直到比赛结束.
3. Buy your tickets at this wicket.
请在此窗口买票.
4. The wicket opened on a stone staircase, leading upward.
小门通向一道上行的石梯.
5. 'The ghosts that vanished when the wicket closed.
“ 小门关掉之后便消失的幽灵群.

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