• vt. 引導(dǎo)；踢；解雇；使穿靴
• n. 靴子；踢；汽車行李箱
• n. (Boot)人名；(英)布特；(德)博特

1.靴子，來自beat , 擊，打，踢。

2.益處，詞源不詳。主要用于短語to boot, 除此之外。比較級better, 最高級best.

boot

boot: [14] Boot is a comparatively late acquisition by English. It came, either directly or via Old Norse bóti, from Old French bote, whose source is unknown. The modern British sense ‘car’s luggage compartment’ goes back to a 17thcentury term for an outside compartment for attendants on a coach, which may have come directly from modern French botte. The boot of ‘to boot’ is a completely different word. It comes from Old English bōt ‘a(chǎn)dvantage, remedy’, which can be traced back to a prehistoric Germanic base *bat-, source also of better and best.
=> best, better

boot (n.1)

footwear, early 14c., from Old French bote "boot" (12c.), with corresponding words in Proven?al and Spanish, of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source. Originally for riding boots only. An old Dorsetshire word for "half-boots" was skilty-boots [Halliwell, Wright].

boot (n.2)

"profit, use," Old English bot "help, relief, advantage; atonement," literally "a making better," from Proto-Germanic *boto (see better (adj.)). Compare German Bu?e "penance, atonement," Gothic botha "advantage." Now mostly in phrase to boot (Old English to bote).

boot (v.2)

"start up a computer," 1975, from bootstrap (v.), a 1958 derived verb from bootstrap (n.) in the computer sense.

boot (v.1)

"to kick," 1877, American English, from boot (n.1). Generalized sense of "eject, kick out" is from 1880. Related: Booted; booting.

1. As we drew near, I saw that the boot lid was up.

我們靠近時,我看見汽車行李箱的蓋子翹了起來.

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2. They have to be thin, attractive and well-dressed to boot.

她們必須得既苗條又迷人，而且一定要打扮漂亮。

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3. I helped her stow her bags in the boot of the car.

我?guī)退龑胚M汽車行李箱里。

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4. I can boot up from a floppy disk, but that's all.

我可以用一張軟盤來啟動，但其他的就無能為力了。

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5. He is making money and receiving free advertising to boot!

他既掙了錢，又做了免費的廣告！

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