jock
jock 英 [dʒɒk] 美 [dʒɑk]
n. （大学）运动员；乔克（男子名）；苏格兰高原地方的士兵
名词复数:jocks
- A jock is a serious athlete, someone who enjoys and is good at sports. Your cousin the jock might encourage you to try out for the football team even if what you love is playing chess and acting in plays.
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- n. （大学）运动员；乔克（男子名）；苏格兰高原地方的士兵
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1. Most weekdays she came home very late on the jock bus.
大多数工作日她都很晚才坐着运动员巴士回到家。
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2. "My wife isn't as into fitness as I am and that's fine, " says jock Andrew Hartsock. "I'm not going to go on a 50 to 100 mile bike ride with her, but we can ride around the neighborhood.
“我的妻子不象我一样健康，不过那没关系”，运动员安德鲁.哈索克说，“虽然我不会与她一起骑50-100里路的自行车，但我们以不一样的速度绕着房子周围骑。”
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3. Patty frightened nobody, but she’d been a standout athlete in high school and college and possessed a jock sort of fearlessness.
没人害怕帕蒂，尽管高中和大学时期她曾经是出色的运动员，有着运动员那股子无所畏惧的劲头。
- Jock c. 1500, variant of the masc. proper name Jack, the by-form of John. In Scotland and northern England it is the usual form. Since 1520s, like Jack, it has been used generically, as a common appellative of lads and servants, as the name of a typical man of the common folk, of a Scottish or North Country seaman, etc.
- jock (n.) 1952, short for jockstrap "supporter of the male genital organs," which also meant, in slang, "athletic male." Jock with the meaning "an athletic man" is from 1963, American English slang. A jockette (1948) originally was a female disk jockey, then a female jockey (1969), then an athletic female (1979).
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