axle: [17] The word axle emerges surprisingly late considering the antiquity of axles, but related terms had existed in the language for perhaps a thousand years. Old English had eax, which came from a hypothetical Germanic *akhsō, related to Latin axis. This survived in the compound ax-tree until the 17th century (later in Scotland); tree in this context meant ‘beam’.
But from the early 14th century the native ax-tree began to be ousted by Old Norse ?xultré (or as it became in English axle-tree); the element ?xull came from a prehistoric Germanic *akhsulaz, a derivative of *akhsō. Axle first appeared on its own in the last decade of the 16th century (meaning ‘a(chǎn)xis’, a sense it has since lost), and became firmly established in the early 17th century.
axle (n.)
"pole or pin upon which a wheel revolves," Middle English axel-, from some combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ?xull "axis," both from Proto-Germanic *akhsulaz (cognates: Old English eaxl, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala, German Achsel "shoulder"), from PIE *aks- "axis" (see axis). Found only in compound axletree before 14c.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. to weld a broken axle
焊接一條斷裂的軸
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. The rear axle carries the greatest weight.
后軸負(fù)荷最重的分量.
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
3. Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.
于是,輪子在軸上旋轉(zhuǎn).
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
4. The axle doesn't work smoothly. It needs oiling.
輪軸發(fā)澀, 該上油了.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. Frank abandoned his axle as the heat in it died.