card
card 英 [kɑ:d] 美 [kɑrd]
n. 卡片;纸牌;
进行时:carding 过去式:carded 过去分词:carded 第三人称单数:cards 名词复数:cards
- A card is a thick, often square or rectangular piece of paper. A schmoozer might hand you a business card, or you might send your mom a Mother’s Day card, or perhaps you’ll play poker with a deck of cards.
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- n. 卡片;纸牌;
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1. a membership card
会员卡
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2. You have his card?
你有他的名片吧?
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3. a piece of card
一张卡片纸
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4. a birthday/get-well/good luck card
生日贺卡;祝愿康复卡;幸运贺卡
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5. Who wants to play cards?
谁想玩牌?
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6. Did you get my card from Italy?
你收到我从意大利寄出的明信片了吗?
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7. I've never been very good at cards.
我打牌的技术向来不高。
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8. Sorry, I left my credit card at home.
对不起, 我把信用卡落在家里了。
- card (n.1) early 15c., "a playing card," from Old French carte (14c.), from Medieval Latin carta/charta "a card, paper; a writing, a charter," from Latin charta "leaf of paper, a writing, tablet," from Greek khartes "layer of papyrus," which is probably from Egyptian. Form influenced by Italian cognate carta "paper, leaf of paper." Compare chart (n.). The shift in English from -t to -d is unexplained.
- card (n.2) "implement or machine for combing, brush with wire teeth used in disentangling fibers for spinning," late 14c. (mid-14c. in surname Cardmaker), from Old French carde "card, teasel," from Old Provençal cardo or some other Romanic source (compare Spanish and Italian carda "thistle, tease, card," back-formation from cardar "to card" (see card (v.2)). The English word probably also comes via Anglo-Latin cardo, from Medieval Latin carda "a teasel," from Latin carduus.
- card (v.1) 1540s, "to play cards" (now obsolete), from card (n.1). From 1925 as "to write (something) on a card for filing." Meaning "require (someone) to show an identification card" is from 1970s. Related: Carded; carding.
- card (v.2) "to comb wool," late 14c., from card (n.2) or else from Old French carder, from Old Provençal cardar "to card," from Vulgar Latin *caritare, from Latin carrere "to clean or comb with a card," perhaps from PIE root *kars- "to scrape" (see harsh). Related: Carded; carding.
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