• n. 礦井；深坑；陷阱；（物體或人體表面上的）凹陷；（英國劇場的）正廳后排；正廳后排的觀眾
• vt. 使競爭；窖藏；使凹下；去…之核；使留疤痕
• vi. 凹陷；起凹點
• n. (Pit)人名；(東南亞國家華語)必

來自古英語pytt,水坑，井，來自Proto-Germanic*puttjaz,水坑，井，借自拉丁語puteur,水坑，井，來自PIE*peue,清洗，純化，詞源同pure,purity.引申坑，井，洞，休息區等多種詞義。

來自pith 拼寫變體或對詞。

pit

pit: English has two words pit. The older, ‘hole’ [OE], comes ultimately from Latin puteus ‘pit, well’ (source also of French puits ‘well, shaft’), but reached English via a Germanic route. It was borrowed in prehistoric times into West Germanic as *putti, which has evolved into German pfütze ‘pool’, Dutch put ‘pit’, and English pit. Pit ‘fruit-stone’ [19] may have been borrowed from Dutch pit, which goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *pithan, source of English pith [OE].
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pit (n.1)

"hole, cavity," Old English pytt "water hole, well; pit, grave," from Proto-Germanic *puttjaz "pool, puddle" (cognates: Old Frisian pet, Old Saxon putti, Old Norse pyttr, Middle Dutch putte, Dutch put, Old High German pfuzza, German Pfütze "pool, puddle"), early borrowing from Latin puteus "well, pit, shaft." Meaning "abode of evil spirits, hell" is attested from early 13c. Pit of the stomach (1650s) is from the slight depression there between the ribs.

pit (v.)

mid-15c., "to put into a pit," from pit (n.1); especially for purposes of fighting (of cocks, dogs, pugilists) from 1760. Figurative sense of "to set in rivalry" is from 1754. Meaning "to make pits in" is from late 15c. Related: Pitted; pitting. Compare Pit-bull as a dog breed attested from 1922, short for pit-bull terrier (by 1912). This also is the notion behind the meaning "the part of a theater on the floor of the house" (1640s).

pit (n.2)

"hard seed," 1841, from Dutch pit "kernel, seed, marrow," from Middle Dutch pitte, ultimately from West Germanic *pithan-, source of pith (q.v.).

1. A gold mine is not a bottomless pit, the gold runs out.

金礦并非無底的寶藏，金子終究會被采光。

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2. He was convicted of failing to muzzle a pit bull.

他因沒能給比特犬戴嘴套而被判有罪。

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3. He had to make four pit stops during the race.

他不得不在比賽過程中4次停車進站。

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4. I had a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach.

我心頭有種怪怪的感覺。

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5. The problem is we don't have a bottomless pit of resources.

問題是我們沒有取之不盡的資源。

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