abroach

adv. 开个口使水流出 a. 开口的

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US /əˈbɹoʊt͡ʃ/
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词形变化

abroached abroaches 三单 abroaches abroaching abroaching 现在分词 abroached 过去式 abroached 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

    废旧 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Tapped; broached.

  2. 2.

    Astir; moving about.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.

    废旧

    1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 146, 16 March, 1709, Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1754, p. 115, Jupiter, in the beginning of his reign, finding the world much more innocent than it is in this iron age, poured very plentifully out of the tun that stood at his right hand; but as mankind degenerated, and became unworthy of his blessings, he set abroach the other vessel, that filled the world with pain and poverty […]

  2. 2.

    In a state to be diffused or propagated.

    废旧

    1761, George Colman, The Genius, No. 6, 20 August, 1761, in Prose on Several Occasions, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 1, p. 64, When a person of high rank is destined for the victim, an emissary is dispatched to set the story abroach at some obscure coffee-house in the city, whence it speedily marches to its head quarters near the court:

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词源

From Middle English abroche, from Norman, from Old French abroche (“to spigot”). Equivalent to a- + broach.

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