nutshell

B2 FREQ #20985

n. 坚果壳, 极小的东西

发音

US /ˈnʌt.ʃɛl/

词形变化

nutshells 复数 nutshells nutshelled nutshelling nutshells 三单 nutshelling 现在分词 nutshelled 过去式 nutshelled 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.

    坚果壳

    For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.

  2. 2.

    A short book summarizing an area of law.

  3. 3.

    A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.

    航海 交通
v.
  1. 1.

    To summarize (from the term in a nutshell).

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

shell

相关短语

cashew nutshell liquid in a nutshell 简括地说, 一句话

词源

From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *hnutskallju, equivalent to nut + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nuteskele, Nuteskil (“nutshell”), Dutch notenschaal (“nutshell”), German Nussschale (“nutshell”).

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