thong

教材释义与例句

名词

皮带；皮鞭；人字拖鞋

释义与例句

n.

1.

A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects.
2.

An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.

人字拖

澳大利亚过时

2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108, Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
3.

An item of clothing, usually an undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.

英国美国

She was impressed by her friend's confidence to wear a thong on the crowded beach.
4.

The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

lash g-string flip-flop

上位词 2

underpants sandal

整体词 1

whip

词源

From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”). Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), Danish tvinge (“clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).

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