cutlass: [16] Appropriate as the name sounds, cutlass has no etymological connection with cut. It comes from Old French cutelas, a derivative (denoting large size) of coutel ‘knife’. This in turn goes back to Latin cultellus, a diminutive of culter ‘knife, ploughshare’ (source of English coulter [OE] and cutler [14], whence cutlery [14]). => coulter, cutlery
cutlass (n.)
1590s, from Middle French coutelas (16c.), probably from Italian coltellaccio "large knife" (with augmentative suffix -accio), from coltello "knife," from Latin cultellus "small knife," diminutive of culter "knife, plowshare," from PIE *kel-tro-, from root *(s)kel- "to cut" (see scale (n.1)).
雙語例句
1. He sits with a drawn cutlass.
他現(xiàn)在坐在那里時,面前總是放著一把出鞘的彎刀.
來自英漢文學(xué) - 金銀島
2. At the same time , observing Gray to be unarmed, I handed him my cutlass.
突然, 我發(fā)現(xiàn)格雷沒有武器, 便把我的彎刀給了他.
來自英漢文學(xué) - 金銀島
3. Let me just find my silver cutlass, and fill my stomach!
讓我找到我的銀短刀, 填飽我的肚子就好!
來自電影對白
4. Cutlass and corselet of steel, and his trusty sword of Damascus.
鋼刀,盔甲, 和他素來倚重的大馬士革利劍.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Bloodthirsty and elegant, the Sea - Elvish Pirates a strange mixture of water and blood, wind and cutlass.