quarterstaff

quarterstaff怎么读

英式音标：[\'kwɔ:təstɑ:f]

美式音标：[\'kwɔtəˌstɑf]

quarterstaff基本解释

n. 铁头木棒（英国旧时的一种武器，长六英尺至八英尺）

quarterstaff的意思释义

n.

铁头木棒（英国旧时的一种武器，长六英尺至八英尺）；

变形

复数：quarterstaves

英英释义

quarterstaff[ \'kwɔ:təstɑ:f, -stæf ]

n.a long stout staff used as a weapon

quarterstaff用法及例句

例句参考

\"QUARTERSTAFF\"

QUARTERSTAFF

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PC Shipments Grow 14 Percent In First Quarter

DSP Communications Promises CDMA Chip Set In Second Quarter

Extinction Forecast for One-Quarter of All Primates

GMX Resources Posts Lower First Quarter Earnings

BRIEFCASE KORN/FERRY POSTS THIRD-QUARTER LOSS

Piedmont puts away win with big fourth quarter

Carroll girls upset Alter with strong 4th quarter

S. Central saves best for final quarter

Open Kernel Labs criticizes VMware MVP architecture

The Sting Volume 5, Spring Quarter 1981

quarterstaff词源

quarterstaff (n.)

also quarter-staff, 1540s (quarter-stroke \"stroke with a quarterstaff\" is attested from early 15c.), stout pole, six to eight feet long (six-and-a-half sometimes is given as the standard length), tipped with iron, formerly a weapon used by the English peasantry. From staff (n.); the quarter is of uncertain signification. According to one theory, favored by fencing manuals, etc., it likely is in reference to operation of the weapon:

It was grasped by one hand in the middle, and by the other between the middle and the end. In the attack the latter hand shifted from one quarter of the staff to the other, giving the weapon a rapid circular motion, which brought the ends on the adversary at unexpected points. [Century Dictionary]

Linguists tend to prefer an explanation from woodcutting, perhaps a reference to a cut of lumber known as a quarter, but contemporary evidence is wanting for either conjecture.

quarterstaff相关例句

1. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.

他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。

4. What are you so pensive about?

你这么专心,在想些 什么 ?

来自辞典例句

5. She had a gentle voice and pensive expression.

她有柔和的声音和深思的表情.

来自辞典例句

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