jigger
jigger 英 [ˈdʒɪgə(r)] 美 [ˈdʒɪɡɚ]
n. 小滑车；量杯；小玩意 vt. 阻止
名词复数:jiggers
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- n. 小滑车；量杯；小玩意
- vt. 阻止
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1. This jigger is your best friend, or it should be.
这个量杯是你最好的朋友，或者应该是。
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2. This is popularly called sailing under “jib and jigger”—the jigger being an old square-rigger term for the aft-most mast flying a triangular sail.
这种航行法常被叫做“jib and jigger”——jigger是对于船尾桅杆上的三角帆的古老叫法。
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3. Or is it sometimes a matter of chance - an adolescent’s decision to try a pill with addictive properties infinitely more powerful than a jigger of whiskey from the family liquor cabinet?
亦或是这些的综合呢？ 又或许这只是偶然事件，是青春少年简单的决定尝试一片比起家里酒柜中的一小杯威士忌要强力得多的使人上瘾的药片？
- jigger (n.1) "1.5-ounce shot glass," 1836, American English, in early use also of the drink itself, probably from jigger "illicit distillery" (1824), a word of unknown origin. Or else perhaps from jigger (n.2) "tiny mite or flea." As a name for various appliances the word is attested by 1726, from jig.
- jigger (n.2) "1.5-ounce shot glass," 1836, American English, in early use also of the drink itself, from jigger "illicit distillery" (1824), of unknown origin; or else perhaps from jigger, a 1756 alteration of chigger "tiny mite or flea." As a name for various appliances, the word is attested by 1825, from jig.
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