pendant
英 ['pend(?)nt]
美['p?nd?nt]
- n. 下垂物，垂饰
TEM8TOEFL扩展词汇
词态变化
复数:?pendants;
助记提示
区分pendant, pendent: 字母a表示一个，进而表示一个吊坠。
中文词源
pendant 项链上的垂饰
来自拉丁语pendere,悬挂，来自PIE*spend,*spen,拉，伸，词源同span,pendulum.引申词义项链上的垂饰。
英文词源
- pendant (n.)
- early 14c., "loose, hanging part of anything," from Anglo-French pendaunt "hanging" (c. 1300), Old French pendant (13c.), noun use of present participle of pendre "to hang," from Latin pendere "to hang," from PIE *(s)pend-, extended form of root *(s)pen- "to pull, draw, stretch" (see span (v.)). Meaning "dangling part of an earring" is attested from 1550s. Nautical sense of "tapering flag" is recorded from late 15c. "In this sense presumably a corruption of pennon" [OED].
双语例句
- 1. My necklace has a heart pendant, but I don't wear it everyday.
- 我的项链有一个心形的垂饰, 但我并非每天都戴他.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. The pendant was hanging by a thin gold chain.
- 那耳环是由一根细金链子吊着的.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. Then I try a very delicate butterfly pendant and bracelet that are so feather -light , I almost shoplift them by mistake.
- 于是我又试了一个精巧的蝴蝶结和手镯，这两样东西简直轻如羽毛，我几乎顺手牵羊将它们偷走。
来自辞典例句
- 4. It's a pendant lamp.
- 是吊灯.
来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
- 5. So you don't know what the choker and star pendant necklaces mean?
- 原来你不知道那个星型坠子的短项链代表 什么 ?
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