scotch
scotch 英 [skɒtʃ] 美 [skɑtʃ]
vi. 弄伤；制止转动；扑灭；镇压 n. 刻痕
进行时:scotching 过去式:scotched 过去分词:scotched 第三人称单数:scotches 名词复数:scotches
- Don't get your hopes up: The verb to scotch has nothing to do with the well-known liquor. Instead, it means to prevent or stop something from happening.
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- vi. 弄伤；制止转动；扑灭；镇压
- n. 刻痕
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1. Facts will eventually scotch these rumours.
这种谣言在事实面前将不攻自破。
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2. Any scotch drinkers in here? No, of course not.
在座有喝威士忌的吗,没有,当然没有
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3. On the way there, I stopped and bought a case of scotch.
在去那儿的路上，我停下来买了一瓶苏格兰威士忌。
- Scotch (adj.) "of Scotland," 1590s, contraction of Scottish. Disdained by the Scottish because of the many insulting and pejorative formations made from it by the English (such as Scotch greys "lice;" Scotch attorney, a Jamaica term from 1864 for strangler vines).
- scotch (n.1) 1778, elliptical for Scotch whisky. See Scotch (adj.).
- scotch (n.2) "incision, cut, score, gash," mid-15c., related to scotch (v.).
- scotch (v.) "stamp out, crush," 1825, earlier "make harmless for a time" (1798; a sense that derives from an uncertain reading of "Macbeth" III.ii.13), from scocchen "to cut, score, gash, make an incision" (early 15c.), of unknown origin, perhaps [Barnhart] from Anglo-French escocher, Old French cocher "to notch, nick," from coche "a notch, groove," perhaps from Latin coccum "berry of the scarlet oak," which appears notched, from Greek kokkos. Related: Scotched; scotching.
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