carry

英 ['kærɪ] 美 ['kæri]
  • vt. 拿,扛;携带;支持;搬运
  • vi. 能达到;被携带;被搬运
  • n. 运载;[计] 进位;射程
  • n. (Carry)人名;(英)卡里

中文词源


carry 携带

来自car, 车,携带,运输。

英文词源


carry
carry: [14] For such a basic and common word, carry has a surprisingly brief history. It does not go back to some prehistoric Indo-European root, but was formed less than 1000 years ago in Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French, on the basis of carre or car (immediate source of English car). The verb carier thus meant literally ‘transport in a wheeled vehicle’. This sense was carried over into English, and though it has since largely given way to the more general ‘convey’, it is preserved in the derivative carriage, in such expressions as ‘carriage paid’.
=> car, carriage
carry (v.)
early 14c., from Anglo-French carier "to transport in a vehicle" or Old North French carrier "to cart, carry" (Modern French charrier), from Gallo-Roman *carrizare, from Late Latin carricare, from Latin carrum (see car).

Meaning "take by force" is from 1580s. Sense of "gain victory in an election" is from 1610s. Of sound, "to be heard at a distance" by 1896. Carrying capacity is attested from 1836. Carry on "continue to advance" is from 1640s; carryings-on "questionable doings" is from 1660s. Carry-castle (1590s) was an old descriptive term for an elephant.
carry (n.)
c. 1600, "vehicle for carrying," from carry (v.). U.S. football sense attested by 1949.

双语例句


1. The indisputable fact is that computers carry out logical operations.
不容置疑的事实是,电脑执行逻辑操作指令。

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2. The Navy is to carry out an examination of the wreck tomorrow.
海军明天将对失事船只进行细查。

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3. Many women know how to carry out repairs on their cars.
许多妇女懂得怎样修自己的车。

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4. All the ferries carry bicycles free or for a nominal charge.
所有的渡船都免费或以极低的收费运载自行车。

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5. They were told to carry their wounded and leave their dead.
他们被命令抬走伤员,丢下死者。

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