socket

来自盎格鲁法语 soket,犁桦，犁尖，小词形式于古法语 soc,犁桦，可能最终来自 PIE*su,猪， 词源同 sow,swine.即像个猪鼻子，后引申词义孔，槽，窝，穴以及现代词义插座，字面意思 即犁挖的小洞。

socket (n.)

c. 1300, "spearhead" (originally one shaped like a plowshare), from Anglo-French soket "spearhead, plowshare" (mid-13c.), diminutive of Old French soc "plowshare," from Vulgar Latin *soccus, perhaps from a Gaulish source, from Celtic *sukko- (cognates: Welsh swch "plowshare," Middle Irish soc "plowshare"), properly "hog's snout," from PIE *su- "pig" (cognates: Latin sus "swine;" see sow (n.) "female pig").

Meaning "hollow part or piece for receiving and holding something" first recorded early 15c.; anatomical sense is from c. 1600; domestic electrical sense first recorded 1885. Socket wrench is attested from 1837. The verb is 1530s, from the noun. Related: Socketed; socketing.

1. I'm sure that yellow lead matched up to that yellow socket.

我敢肯定那根黄线接那个黄色插口。

2. Never overload an electrical socket.

千万不要使电源插座过载。

3. an aerial socket on the television

电视机上的天线插孔

4. The battery charger plugs into any mains socket.

这个电池充电器可以插入任何类型的电源插座.

5. He put the electric plug into the socket.

他把电插头插入插座.