machete
machete 英 [məˈʃeti] 美 [məˈʃɛti, -ˈtʃɛti]
n. 弯刀；大砍刀；马谢特琴
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- A machete is a huge, heavy, powerful knife, used mainly in Central and South America. A machete is great for cutting vegetation, but you wouldn't want to confront one in a dark alley.
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- n. 弯刀；大砍刀；马谢特琴
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1. “Before I started growing coffee, I couldn’t afford a house like the one I live in now, ” said Wang Zhongxue, a robust 72-year-old who cuts a striking figure with his machete.
“在我种植咖啡以前，我不可能盖得起像我现在居住的房子”，王中学，一个72岁的健壮汉子，凭借他的大砍刀让自己的生活崭露头角。
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2. We traveled one of these in dugout canoes, canoes paddled with machete-hewn oars, or poled in the shallows with bamboo.
我们荡舟其上，划着用大砍刀砍削而成的木桨，在浅水处则以竹当篙。
- machete (n.) 1590s (in pseudo-Spanish form macheto), from Spanish machete, probably a diminutive of macho "sledge hammer," alteration of mazo "club," which is probably [Barnhart] a dialectal variant of maza "mallet," from Vulgar Latin *mattea "war club" (see mace (n.1)). An alternative explanation traces macho to Latin marculus "a small hammer," diminutive of marcus "hammer," from a base parallel to that of Latin malleus (see mallet).
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