buck

英 [bʌk]

n. （美）钱，元；雄鹿；纨绔子弟；年轻的印第安人或黑人
n. (Buck)人名；(英、西)巴克；(法)比克；(德、瑞典、匈)布克

近义词 jump leap spring

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英英释义

1. a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

2. a piece of paper money worth one dollar

3. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

4. mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)

词组搭配

buck up

To summon one's courage or spirits; hearten

振奋：鼓起勇气或打起精神；使…欢欣鼓舞

My friends tried to buck me up after I lost the contest.
我在竞赛中失败后，我的朋友们想使我打起精神来

考试真题

NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck.

While more families buck an older-generation proclivity to leave kids in the dark about real estate decisions, realty agents and psychologists have mixed views about the financial, personal and long-term effects kids'opinions may have.

实用场景例句

Buck up, kid! It's not the end of the game.: 年轻人，振作起来！比赛还未结束呢。

The good news bucked us all up.: 好消息使我们全都为之振奋。

He admired her willingness to buck the system (= oppose authority or rules) .: 他赞赏她反抗现存体制的主动性。

They cost ten bucks.: 这些值十元钱。

We're talking big bucks (= a lot of money) here.: 我们这当儿谈的可是大买卖。

a herd of buck: 一群鹿

It was my decision. The buck stops here (= nobody else can be blamed) .: 那是我的决定。不要追究别人了。

I was tempted to pass the buck (= make sb else responsible) .: 我很想把责任推给别人。

The boat bucked and heaved beneath them.: 小船在他们脚下猛烈颠簸着。

One or two companies have managed to buck the trend of the recession.: 有一两家公司顶住了经济滑坡的势头。

The buck stops with him. He is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the broadcast.: 责任在于他。他是该广播节目各方面的总负责人。

David says the responsibility is Mr Smith's and it's no good trying to pass the buck.: 戴维说责任在史密斯先生，企图推脱责任是没有用的。

The owners don't want to overlook any opportunity to make a buck.: 老板们不想错过任何可以赚钱的机会。

That would probably cost you about fifty bucks...: 那大概要花掉你50美元左右。

Why can't you spend a few bucks on a coat?...: 你为什么不能花点儿钱买件外套呢？

He'd been a real hell-raiser as a young buck.: 他年轻时是个十足的捣蛋鬼。

The stallion bucked as he fought against the reins holding him tightly in.: 牡马四蹄腾空跳起，想挣脱紧紧缚住它的缰绳。

...cowboys riding bucking broncos.: 骑在弓背腾跃的野马上的牛仔

While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend...: 当其他报纸的发行量越来越少时，我们却逆势而进。

He wants to be the tough rebel who bucks the system...: 他想成为这种体制的坚定反抗者。

I think it's very important for those governments to do whatever they can to get a bigger bang for the buck.: 我认为，重要的是那些政府要采取一切措施来获取更大的资金回报。

His life isn't ruled by looking for a fast buck...: 他的生活没有被一味想发大财的心态左右。

They were just in it to make a quick buck.: 他们做这事就是为了迅速赚大钱。

The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.: 这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨.

Every time something goes wrong, you try to pass the buck.: 每次有什么出错的地方, 你总是把责任推给别人.

中文词源

buck 一美元，雄鹿

来自PIE *bhug, 公羊，同时指公鹿，公兔等其它雄性动物，后主要指雄鹿。美元义来自于美国西部大开发中鹿皮做为土著印地安人和欧洲殖民者间的货币媒介。

Buck ’s Fizz 巴克泡腾酒

因在伦敦著名的Buck’s Club首次调制出而得名。

助记提示

buck：不可。认为你的观点是不可以的——反对。

双语例句

1. The owners don't want to overlook any opportunity to make a buck.: 老板们不想错过任何可以赚钱的机会。

2. He'd been a real hell-raiser as a young buck.: 他年轻时是个十足的捣蛋鬼。

3. His life isn't ruled by looking for a fast buck.: 他的生活没有被一味想发大财的心态左右。

4. Buck up your ideas or you'll get more of the same treatment.: 打起精神来，否则你会吃更多苦头。

5. People are saying if we don't buck up we'll be in trouble.: 人们说，如果我们再不积极行动起来，我们就会有麻烦。

英文词源

buck: buck: [OE] Old English had two related words which have coalesced into modern English buck: bucca ‘male goat’ and buc ‘male deer’. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic stem *buk-, and beyond that probably to an Indo-European source. The 18th-century meaning ‘dashing fellow’ probably comes ultimately from the related Old Norse bokki, a friendly term for a male colleague, which was originally adopted in English in the 14th century meaning simply ‘fellow’. The colloquial American sense ‘dollar’ comes from an abbreviation of buckskin, which was used as a unit of trade with the Native Americans in Frontier days.
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buck (n.1): "male deer," c. 1300, earlier "male goat;" from Old English bucca "male goat," from Proto-Germanic *bukkon (cognates: Old Saxon buck, Middle Dutch boc, Dutch bok, Old High German boc, German Bock, Old Norse bokkr), perhaps from a PIE root *bhugo (cognates: Avestan buza "buck, goat," Armenian buc "lamb"), but some speculate that it is from a lost pre-Germanic language. Barnhart says Old English buc "male deer," listed in some sources, is a "ghost word or scribal error."

Meaning "dollar" is 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin, a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days, attested in this sense from 1748. Pass the buck is first recorded in the literal sense 1865, American English:
The 'buck' is any inanimate object, usually knife or pencil, which is thrown into a jack pot and temporarily taken by the winner of the pot. Whenever the deal reaches the holder of the 'buck', a new jack pot must be made. [J.W. Keller, "Draw Poker," 1887]
Perhaps originally especially a buck-handled knife. The figurative sense of "shift responsibility" is first recorded 1912. Buck private is recorded by 1870s, of uncertain signification.
buck (v.): 1848, apparently with a sense of "jump like a buck," from buck (n.1). Related: Bucked; bucking. Buck up "cheer up" is from 1844.
buck (n.2): "sawhorse," 1817, American English, apparently from Dutch bok "trestle."

词态变化

复数: bucks;第三人称单数: bucks;过去式: bucked;过去分词: bucked;现在分词: bucking;