purse
purse 英 [pɜ:s] 美 [pɜrs]
n. 钱包，皮夹子；
进行时:pursing 过去式:pursed 过去分词:pursed 第三人称单数:purses 名词复数:purses
- Though purses are mostly carried by women, this is the kind of purse anyone would love to bring home: it's a prize, usually consisting of money.
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- n. 钱包，皮夹子；
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1. I took a coin out of my purse and gave it to the child.
我从钱包取出一枚硬币给那个小孩。
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2. We have holidays to suit every purse.
我们有适合不同消费计划的度假安排。
- purse (n.) Old English pursa "little bag made of leather," especially for carrying money, from Medieval Latin bursa "leather purse" (source also of Old French borse, 12c., Modern French bourse; see bourse), from Late Latin bursa, variant of byrsa "hide," from Greek byrsa "hide, leather." Change of b- to p- perhaps by influence of Old English pusa, Old Norse posi "bag."
- purse (v.) c. 1300, "put in a purse;" c. 1600 as "draw together and wrinkle" (as the strings of a money bag), from purse (n.). Related: Pursed; pursing.
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