knacker

英 ['nækə] 美['nækɚ]
  • n. 屠马业者;收买废屋船业者
  • vt. 阉割;杀死

英英释义


1. someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
2. someone who buys up old horses for slaughter

实用场景例句


Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.
她的马擅长跨越障碍,是家人从废马屠宰场挽救回来的。

柯林斯例句

词态变化


第三人称单数: knackers;过去式: knackered;过去分词: knackered;现在分词: knackering;形容词: knackering;

中文词源


knacker 老马,使筋疲力尽,杀死

可能来自古诺斯语hnakkur,马鞍,hnakki,马背,词源同neck.后引申词义老马,像老马一样筋疲力尽。词义杀死可能来自knack,击,打,砍杀。

英文词源


knacker (v.)
usually in past tense, knackered, "to kill, castrate" (1855), but most often used in weakened sense of "to tire out" (1883); apparently from knacker (n.) "worn-out or useless horse," 1812, of unknown origin; possibly from a dialectal survival of a Scandinavian word represented by Old Norse hnakkur "saddle," hnakki "back of the neck," and thus possibly related to neck (n.).

双语例句


1. Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard.
她的马擅长跨越障碍,是家人从废马屠宰场挽救回来的。

来自柯林斯例句