词族 · clapboard
英语词源
- clapboard (n.)
- 1520s, partial translation of Middle Dutch klapholt (borrowed into English late 14c. as clapholt), from klappen "to fit" + Low German holt "wood, board" (see holt). Compare German Klappholz. Originally small boards of split oak, imported from northern Germany and cut by coopers to make barrel staves; the meaning "long, thin board used for roofing or to cover the exterior of wooden buildings" is from 1640s, American English.
权威例句
- 1. There is a clapboard among casing, right an electric machinery.
- 箱体中间有一块隔板, 右边一个电机.
- 2. But vintage clapboard buildings and weathered Chinese storefronts still adorn this tropical town.
- 但是,老式的建筑物和风化的隔板,中文的店面依然装饰点着这个热带的城市.