musket
musket 英 [ˈmʌskɪt] 美 [ˈmʌskɪt]
n. 步枪；滑膛枪，毛瑟枪
名词复数:muskets
- A musket is a long, front-loaded, over-the-shoulder gun. Muskets have been used in many wars, such as the American Civil War.
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- n. 步枪；滑膛枪，毛瑟枪
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1. He’s on more solid footing though when he reports that two kinds of mountings were tried to affix a bayonet to a musket; ring mounting and a socket bayonet.
不过，在描述刺刀固定方式的时候，他就有理有据多了——以前，人们曾经尝试用两种方式将刺刀固定到火枪上：附环固定以及插座式刺刀。
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2. OK, so we’ve got a very large alligator with the wings of a pterosaur that can repel musket fire.
好了，那么我们有了个拥有翼龙翅膀的超大鳄鱼，还能抵挡住火枪的火力。
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3. A youth who can’t hit a cathedral at thirty yards with a Gatling gun in three quarters of an hour, can take up an old empty musket and bag his grandmother every time, at a hundred.
三刻钟内用加特林机枪在三十码处不能击中一个教堂的年轻人，却可以站在百码开外，举起一把空膛的旧火枪，趟趟把祖母当靶子击倒。
- musket (n.) "firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks speckled when in flight. Early firearms often were given names of beasts (compare dragoon, also falcon, a kind of cannon mentioned by Hakluyt), and the equivalent word in Italian was used to mean "an arrow for a crossbow." The French word was borrowed earlier into English (early 15c.) in its literal sense of "sparrow-hawk."
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