basket: [13] Basket is something of a mystery word. It turns up in the 13th century in Old French and Anglo-Norman as basket and in Anglo-Latin as baskettum, but how it got there is far from clear. Some have suggested that Latin bascauda ‘washing tub’, said by the Roman writer Martial to be of British origin (and thought by some etymologists to be possibly of Celtic origin), may be connected with it in some way, but no conclusive proof of this has ever been found.
basket (n.)
early 13c., from Anglo-French bascat, origin obscure despite much speculation. On one theory from Latin bascauda "kettle, table-vessel," said by the Roman poet Martial to be from Celtic British and perhaps cognate with Latin fascis "bundle, faggot," in which case it probably originally meant "wicker basket." But OED frowns on this, and there is no evidence of such a word in Celtic unless later words in Irish and Welsh, counted as borrowings from English, are original.
雙語例句
1. He'd put his dirty laundry in the clothes basket.
他會把自己的臟衣服扔進(jìn)洗衣籃里。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She nestled the eggs safely in the straw in Jim's basket.
她把雞蛋輕輕地放在吉姆籃子里的稻草上。
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3. The large log basket can be used to tidy toys away.
大木籃子可以用來裝玩具。
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4. He sent a basket of exotic fruit and a card.
他送了一籃子異域水果和一張卡片。
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5. I dis-covered a mutilated cassette stuffed in a waste-basket.