pestle

GRE畅通词汇

英 ['pes(ə)l] 美['pɛstl]

释义

vt. 用杵捣；用槌磨

vi. 用杵捣碎；用槌磨碎

n. 杵；碾槌

词态变化

复数: pestles;

中文词源

pestle 杵，碾槌

来自拉丁语pistillum,杵，碾槌，来自pinsere,击打，粉碎，来自PIE*peis,击打，捣，词源同piste,piston.

英文词源

pestle: pestle: see piston
pestle (n.): mid-14c. (as a surname late 13c.), from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum "pounder, pestle," related to pinsere "to pound," from PIE *pis-to-, suffixed form of root *peis- "to crush" (cognates: Sanskrit pinasti "pounds, crushes," pistah "anything ground, meal," Greek ptissein "to winnow," Old Church Slavonic pišo, pichati "to push, thrust, strike," pišenica "wheat," Russian pseno "millet").

双语例句

1. Using a pestle and mortar, pulverise the bran to a coarse powder.: 用杵和臼，将麸皮磨成粗粉。

3. The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle?: 带有毒药的小球放在带有杵的容器里?

4. Jin Yu: An iron pestle can be ground down to a needle.: 锦玉: 只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针ㄓㄣ.

英英释意

1. machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

2. a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

实用场景例句

Using a pestle and mortar, pulverise the bran to a coarse powder.: 用杵和臼，将麸皮磨成粗粉。

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle?: 带有毒药的小球放在带有杵的容器里?

An iron pestle can be ground down to a needle. You'll see.: B说:只要功夫深,铁杵磨成针, 你等著瞧吧.

Some animals like horses, some rivers, and even some implements ( like mortar and pestle ) were deified.: 一些动物(比如马), 一些河流, 甚至一些器具 ( 比如研钵和槌 ) 都被神圣化.

A pestle can be ground into a and true knowledge comes from perseverance.: 想得到真正的学问,必须有磨杵成针的精神.

If client has difficulty swallowing, use mortar and pestle to grind pills or a pill - crushing device.: 如病人吞药有困难, 可用药臼或碎药器研碎药片.

Only time is deep, an iron pestle can be ground down to a needle.: 只有功夫深, 铁杵磨成针.