英语单词

Winchester是什么意思

Winchester

英 ['wɪntʃɪstə] 美 ['wɪn,tʃɪstɚ]
  • n. 温彻斯特(英格兰南部城市)

英文词源


Winchester
city in Hampshire, capital of Wessex and later of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Old English Uintancæstir (c.730), from Ouenta (c. 150), from Venta, a pre-Celtic name perhaps meaning "favored or chief place" + Old English ceaster "Roman town" (see Chester). As the name of a kind of breech-loading repeating rifle it is from the name of Oliver F. Winchester (1810-1880), U.S. manufacturer.

双语例句


1. Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things.
温切斯特先生知识广博,通晓万事。

来自柯林斯例句

2. His relics are buried at Winchester.
他的遗骸葬在温彻斯特.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. They were all equipped with new Winchester rifles.
他们都配备着崭新的温彻斯特式来复枪.

来自辞典例句

4. You mean someone that ain't scared of a Winchester rifle?
你意思是说追击者不怕温彻斯特来福枪?

来自电影对白

5. Izaak Walton, English writer, died at Winchester aged 90.
英国作家艾扎克·沃尔顿在温切斯特去世,终年90岁.

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