gadget

释义

• n. 小玩意；小器具；小配件；诡计

词源

gadget

gadget: [19] Gadget is an elusive sort of word, as vague in its history as it is unspecific in its meaning. It seems to have originated as a piece of sailors’ slang, and is said to have been current as long ago as the 1850s, but the earliest record of it in print is from 1886, in R Brown’s Spun Yarn and Spindrift: ‘Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don’t know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chickenfixing, or a gadjet, or a gill-guy, or a timmeynoggy, or a wim-wom – just pro tem., you know’.As for its source, suggestions have included French gâchette ‘catch of a mechanism’ and French dialect gagée ‘tool’.

例句

• 1. The gadget can be attached to any vertical surface. 这小玩意儿可以粘在任何垂直表面上。
• 2. The gadget can be attached to any vertical or near vertical surface. 该装置可以装在任何垂直或近似垂直的平面上。
• 3. The children were squabbling over the remote-control gadget for the television. 孩子们正在为抢夺电视机的遥控器而争吵。
• 4. The gadget is used to artificially inseminate cows. 这个器具被用来为母牛实施人工授精。
• 5. This gadget isn't much good. 这小机械没什么用处.