buck
buck 英 [bʌk] 美 [bʌk]
n. （美）钱，元；雄鹿；责任 v. 颠簸，抵制
进行时:bucking 过去式:bucked 过去分词:bucked 第三人称单数:bucks 名词复数:bucks
- A buck is an adult male deer, antelope, reindeer, or rabbit. You can usually tell a buck by its large horns. If it’s a bunny, you just have to ask. A buck is also slang for an American dollar.
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- n. （美）钱，元；雄鹿；责任
- v. 颠簸，抵制
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1. They cost ten bucks.
这些值十元钱。
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2. We're talking big bucks here.
我们这当儿谈的可是大买卖。
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3. a herd of buck
一群鹿
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4. It was my decision. The buck stops here .
那是我的决定，不要追究别人了。
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5. I was tempted to pass the buck .
我很想把责任推给别人。
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6. The boat bucked and heaved beneath them.
小船在他们脚下猛烈颠簸着。
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7. One or two companies have managed to buck the trend of the recession.
有一两家公司顶住了经济滑坡的势头。
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8. He admired her willingness to buck the system .
他赞赏她反抗现存体制的主动性。
- buck (n.1) "male deer," c. 1300, earlier "male goat;" from Old English bucca "male goat," from Proto-Germanic *bukkon (source also of Old Saxon buck, Middle Dutch boc, Dutch bok, Old High German boc, German Bock, Old Norse bokkr), perhaps from a PIE root *bhugo (source also of Avestan buza "buck, goat," Armenian buc "lamb"), but some speculate that it is from a lost pre-Germanic language. Barnhart says Old English buc "male deer," listed in some sources, is a "ghost word or scribal error." The Germanic word (in the sense "he-goat") was borrowed in French as bouc.
- buck (n.2) "dollar," 1856, American English, perhaps an abbreviation of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).
- buck (n.3) "sawhorse, frame composed of two X-shaped ends joined at the middle by a bar," 1817, American English, apparently from Dutch bok "trestle," literally "buck" (see buck (n.1)). Compare easel.
- buck (n.4) "violent effort of a horse to throw off a rider," 1877, from buck (v.1).
- buck (v.1) of a horse, "make a violent back-arched leap in an effort to throw off a rider," 1848, apparently "jump like a buck," from buck (n.1). Related: Bucked; bucking. Buck up "cheer up" is from 1844, probably from the noun in the "man" sense.
- buck (v.2) "to copulate with," 1520s, from buck (n.1). Related: Bucked; bucking.
- buck (v.3) 1750, "to butt," apparently a corruption of butt (v.) by influence of buck (n.1). Figuratively, of persons, "to resist, oppose," 1857.
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