gouge
gouge 英 [gaʊdʒ] 美 [ɡaʊdʒ]
vt. 用半圆凿子挖；欺骗 n. 沟；圆凿；以圆凿刨
进行时:gouging 过去式:gouged 过去分词:gouged 第三人称单数:gouges 名词复数:gouges
- To gouge can mean to make a hole or dent in something, or to swindle or steal by overcharging. If your local gas station raises prices because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner is gouging you — and that's illegal.
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- vt. 用半圆凿子挖；欺骗
- n. 沟；圆凿；以圆凿刨
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1. In the Middle Ages, a favourite punishment was to gouge out a prisoner's eyes.
在中世纪， 惩罚犯人最常用的办法是剜眼睛。
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2. He had once thought to gouge it out, but that had been a long time ago, and as time passed in the silence of the Waste, he had forgotten.
他曾经想过把这个标志挖去，但那是很久以前的事了。 在寂静的荒野地，随着时间的流逝，他逐渐忘记了。
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3. Not freedom from work, or pain, or tribulation. But freedom from the tiny guilts that gouge away at our joy.
工作，痛苦，艰辛都不能使我们得到自由，自由来自于那些驱散我们欢乐的对细小的不安的认识之中。
- gouge (n.) mid-14c., "chisel with a concave blade," from Old French gouge "a gouge" (14c.), from Late Latin gubia, alteration of gulbia "hollow beveled chisel," probably from Gaulish (compare Old Irish gulban "prick, prickle," Welsh gylfin "beak"). Meaning "an imposition, a cheat" is from 1845, American English colloquial.
- gouge (v.) 1560s, "to cut with a gouge," from gouge (n.). Meaning "to force out with a gouge" (especially of the eyes, in fighting) attested by 1800. Meaning "to swindle" is American English colloquial from 1826 (implied in plural noun gougers). Related: Gouged; gouging.
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