derrick

英 ['derɪk] 美['dɛrɪk]

TEM8畅通词汇

复数: derricks;

1. 人名“德里克”转义而来。

derrick 转臂超重机，钻塔

来自17世纪初期伦敦泰伯恩刑场执行绞刑的刽子手姓氏Derrick，后通用化作为绞刑架的代称，现词义转臂起重机因形似绞刑架而得名。比较guillotine.

derrick: derrick: [16] Around the end of the 16th century there was a famous Tyburn hangman called Derick. His name came to be used as a personification of hangmen in general, and subsequently as a metaphor for the ‘gallows’. Gradually, however, these macabre associations were lost, and by the 18th century derrick had progressed in meaning to ‘hoisting apparatus’.
derrick (n.): c. 1600, originally "hangman," then "a gallows," then "hoist, crane" (1727), from surname of a hangman at Tyburn gallows, London, c. 1606-1608, often referred to in contemporary theater. The name represents a late borrowing from the Low Countries (compare Dutch Diederik) of Old High German Theodric (see Dietrich).

2. Magnus Derrick had formally and definitely refused his adherence to the scheme.: 曼克奈斯·台力克正式干脆表示,不愿跟这活动有什么关系.

3. Derrick and I have been laying out the system of irrigating ditches.: 德里克跟我在一起修建那个灌溉网.

4. Unlike Harran Derrick, he seemed more of a character than a type.: 他跟哈伦·台力克不一样,与其说他是个典型,还不如说他是个很特殊的人.

5. It might be as well to consult Magnus and Mrs. Derrick.: 还是找曼克奈斯和台力克太太去商量吧.