knacker

英 ['nækə] 美['nækɚ]

释义

n. 屠马业者；收买废屋船业者

vt. 阉割；杀死

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。

英英释意

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

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。