• n. 缆绳；电缆；海底电报
• vt. 打电报
• vi. 打海底电报

来自词根cap, 抓，拿，握，词源同accept, capture. 原指抓动物的绳索。

cable

cable: [13] The ultimate source of cable is late Latin capulum ‘lasso’, a derivative of the verb capere ‘take, seize’, either directly or perhaps via Arabic habl. In Proven?al, capulum became cable, which produced the Old French form chable: so English must either have borrowed the word straight from Proven?al, or from *cable, an unrecorded Anglo-Norman variant of the Old French word.
=> capture, heave

cable (n.)

c. 1200, from Old North French cable, from Medieval Latin capulum "lasso, rope, halter for cattle," from Latin capere "to take, seize" (see capable). Technically, in nautical use, a rope 10 or more inches around, to hold the ship when at anchor; in non-nautical use, a rope of wire (not hemp or fiber). Given a new range of senses in 19c.: Meaning "message received by telegraphic cable" is from 1883 (short for cable message). Cable car is from 1879. Cable television first attested 1963; shortened form cable is from 1972.

cable (v.)

c. 1500, "to tie up with cables;" 1871, American English, "to transmit by cable;" from cable (n.). Related: Cabled; cabling.

1. These strands of molecules twine around each other to form cable-like structures.

这些分子链彼此缠绕，形成缆线状的结构。

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2. Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.

将用钢缆替换磨损的绳索。

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3. The cable-TV and health-care industries are both being mauled by government.

有线电视和保健业正在遭受政府的严厉批评。

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4. In half an hour, they'd switched the tags on every cable.

半个小时内，他们就给每根电缆都换了标签。

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5. China has almost 15 million subscribers to satellite and cable television.

中国有将近1,500万卫星电视和有线电视用户。

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