scrub

英 [skr?b] 美[skr?b]

中低頻詞常用詞匯CET6GRE

復數(shù):?scrubs;第三人稱單數(shù):?scrubs;過去式:?scrubbed;過去分詞:?scrubbed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?scrubbing;

1. shrub => scrub.
2. sc- （諧音“時刻”） + rub => 時時刻刻都在擦洗、摩擦(rub).
3. "擦洗"的含義可能源于最初使用矮灌木樹的枝條做成的擦洗工具。

scrub 刷洗，擦洗，灌木叢

來自 shrub 拼寫變體，詞義由灌木引申為掃帚，刷子，刷洗，擦洗等。比較 broom,掃帚，原義為灌木。

scrub (v.): "rub hard," early 15c., earlier shrubben (c. 1300), perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrubben "to scrub," or from an unrecorded Old English cognate, or from a Scandinavian source (such as Danish skrubbe "to scrub"), probably ultimately from the Proto-Germanic root of shrub, used as a cleaning tool (compare the evolution of broom, brush (n.1)).

Meaning "to cancel" is attested from 1828 (popularized during World War II with reference to flights), probably from notion of "to rub out, erase" an entry on a listing. Related: Scrubbed; scrubbing.
scrub (n.1): late 14c., "low, stunted tree," variant of shrobbe (see shrub), perhaps influenced by a Scandinavian word (such as Danish dialectal skrub "a stunted tree, brushwood"). Collective sense "brush, shrubs" is attested from 1805. As an adjective from 1710. Scrub oak recorded from 1766.

Transferred sense of "mean, insignificant fellow" is from 1580s; U.S. sports meaning "athlete not on the varsity team" is recorded from 1892, probably from this, but compare scrub "hard-working servant, drudge" (1709), perhaps from influence of scrub (v.).
scrub (n.2): "act of scrubbing," 1620s, from scrub (v.). Meaning "thing that is used in scrubbing" is from 1680s.

1. It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.: 它會出錢雇農(nóng)民開墾這塊低矮叢林來種植麥子。

2. The road winds for miles through parched earth, scrub and cactus.: 公路蜿蜒數(shù)英里，穿過炙烤的大地、灌木叢和仙人掌。