squash

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IELTSCET6CET6+TEM8GRETOEFL中低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?squashes;第三人稱單數(shù):?squashes;過去式:?squashed;過去分詞:?squashed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?squashing;

諧音“使垮兮，撕垮兮”。
2. discussion, percussion => quatere 'shake, strike' => quassare 'shake to pieces, break' => cashier, quash, squash.
3. "使去ash"

squash 粉碎，擠，壓

來自古法語 esquasser,來自通俗拉丁語*exquassare,粉碎，壓碎，來自 ex-,向外，quassare,使粉碎，詞源同 quash.引申諸相關(guān)詞義。

squash: squash: see quash
squash (v.): "to crush, squeeze," early 14c., squachen, from Old French esquasser, escasser "to crush, shatter, destroy, break," from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + quassare "to shatter" (see quash "to crush"). Related: Squashed; squashing.
squash (n.1): gourd fruit, 1640s, shortened borrowing from Narraganset (Algonquian) askutasquash, literally "the things that may be eaten raw," from askut "green, raw, uncooked" + asquash "eaten," in which the -ash is a plural affix (compare succotash).
squash (n.2): 1610s, "act of squashing," from squash (v.). The racket game called by that name 1899; earlier (1886) it was the name of the soft rubber ball used in it.

1. In the squash court his chief aim is to flatten me.: 在壁球場上他的主要目標(biāo)就是擊敗我。

2. Amazing place he's got there—squash courts, swimming pool, jacuzzi, the works.: 他的那個(gè)地方真是太棒了——壁球場、游泳池、按摩浴池，一應(yīng)俱全。

3. Squash was once thought to offer all-round fitness.: 人們曾一度認(rèn)為打壁球可以進(jìn)行全身性鍛煉。