1. as a shortening of quadrangle, quadruplet, etc.
英文詞源
quad
quad: see quarter
quad
1820 as a shortening of quadrangle (n.) in the building sense (in this case "quadrangle of a college," Oxford student slang); 1880 as short for quadrat (n.); 1896 as quadruplet (n.), originally "bicycle for four riders;" later "one of four young at a single birth" (1951, of armadillos); 1970 as quadraphonic (adj.). Related: Quads.
雙語例句
1. His rooms were on the left-hand side of the quad.
他的房間位于四方院的左側。
來自柯林斯例句
2. That evening I went across the quad to visit Collins.
當天傍晚,我穿過院子去找科林斯.
來自辭典例句
3. The front quad, where I lived, was floored and tented.
在我居住的四方院子的前排樓房下已經鋪起地板,支起帳篷.
來自辭典例句
4. Goblet cells ( blue ) scattered throughout simple columnar epithelial lining ( special quad stain ).
杯狀細胞 ( 藍色 ) 散在分布于單層柱狀上皮內.
來自互聯網
5. The physics department sits across the quad from the library.