bob

英 [b?b] 美[bɑb]

IELTS中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?bobs;第三人稱單數:?bobs;過去式:?bobbed;過去分詞:?bobbed;現在分詞:?bobbing;

Bob 鮑勃

常用于短語Bob’s your uncle，指易如反掌。Bob是人名Robert的昵稱，代指任何有權有勢人物。類同中國“我爸是李剛。”

bob 上下擺動

擬聲詞，模仿小球在水中上下浮動的聲音。

bob (v.1): "move with a short, jerking motion," late 14c., probably connected to Middle English bobben "to strike, beat" (late 13c.), perhaps of echoic origin. Another early sense was "to make a fool of, cheat" (early 14c.). Related: Bobbed; bobbing. The sense in bobbing for apples (or cherries) recorded by 1799.
bob (n.2): "short hair," 1680s, attested 1570s in sense of "a horse's tail cut short," from earlier bobbe "cluster" (as of leaves), mid-14c., a northern word, perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag). Used over the years in various senses connected by the notion of "round, hanging mass," such as "weight at the end of a line" (1650s). The hair sense was revived with a shift in women's styles early 20c. (verb 1918, noun 1920). Related words include bobby pin, bobby sox, bobsled, bobcat.
bob (n.1): "act of bobbing," 1540s, from bob (v.1). As a slang word for "shilling" it is attested from 1789, but the signification is unknown.

1. Bob died of a heart attack, brought on by his lifestyle.: 鮑勃死于由他的生活方式引起的心臟病突發。

4. Bob Marley provided them with their first taste of Reggae music.: 鮑勃·馬利讓他們首次接觸到了雷蓋音樂。

5. He weaved around the tables to where she sat with Bob.: 他繞過一張張桌子，走到她和鮑勃坐著的地方。