peck

英 [pek] 美[pɛk]

CET6+TEM4GRETOEFLCET6低频词常用词汇

复数: pecks;第三人称单数: pecks;过去式: pecked;过去分词: pecked;现在分词: pecking;

peck 啄，轻吻

来自pick变体，词义同捡拾引申为啄，轻吻。

peck (v.): c. 1300, possibly a variant of picken (see pick (v.)), or in part from Middle Low German pekken "to peck with the beak." Related: Pecked; pecking.
peck (n.1): late 13c., "dry measure of one-quarter bushel," of unknown origin; perhaps connected with Old French pek, picot (13c.), also of unknown origin (Barnhart says these were borrowed from English). Chiefly of oats for horses; original sense may be "allowance" rather than a fixed measure, thus perhaps from peck (v.).
peck (n.2): "act of pecking," 1610s, from peck (v.). It is attested earlier in thieves' slang (1560s) with a sense of "food, grub."

2. They turn on their own kind and peck each other to death.: 它们开始攻击同类，拼命地互相啄着。