carbine

来自意大利地名Calabria。

carbine (n.)

short rifle, 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.

1. His carbine cracked when the infuriated elephant bore down on the hunters.

被激怒的象向猎人们冲过去时,他的冲锋枪打响了.

2. Dalleson said it while he slipped the magazine out of the carbine.

达尔生一边说,一边卸下枪上的弹仓.

3. The crack of Dalleson's carbine sounded again.

达尔生的卡宾枪又砰地响了.

4. Lieutenant Hearn fingered the magazine on his carbine.

候恩少尉用手摸了一下卡宾枪的弹盒.

5. A sentinel struck the rings of his carbine against his left hand.

一个哨兵把他的步枪拍的一声转到左手.