hock
hock 英 [hɒk] 美 [hɑk]
n. 抵押，[贸易] 典当；肘关节 vt. [贸易] 典当
进行时:hocking 过去式:hocked 过去分词:hocked 第三人称单数:hocks 名词复数:hocks
- The hock is a joint on an animal's hind leg, or hock (as a verb) can also mean "to pawn." If you are hard up for cash, you may need to hock that ham hock for a few bucks. Good luck!.
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- n. 抵押，[贸易] 典当；肘关节
- vt. [贸易] 典当
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1. We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing.
有一件事可以肯定的是，由于在伊拉克打仗，我们已经把身上几乎所有的东西都典当给了中国。
- hock (n.1) "joint in the hind leg of a horse or other quadruped," corresponding to the ankle-joint in man, mid-15c., earlier hockshin (late 14c.), from Old English hohsinu "sinew of the heel, Achilles' tendon," literally "heel sinew," from Old English hoh "heel" (in compounds, such as hohfot "heel"), from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (source also of German Hachse "hock," Old English hæla "heel"), from PIE *kenk- (3) "heel, bend of the knee" (see heel (n.1)).
- hock (n.2) "Rhenish wine," 1620s, shortening of Hockamore, a corrupt Englishing of German Hochheimer, "(wine) of Hochheim" (literally "high-home"), town on the Main where wine was made; sense extended to German white wines in general.
- hock (n.3) "pawn, debt," 1859, American English, in hock, which meant both "in debt" and "in prison," from Dutch hok "jail, pen, doghouse, hutch, hovel," in slang use, "credit, debt."
- hock (v.) "to pawn," 1878, from hock (n.3). Related: Hocked; hocking.
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