bottle: [14] Etymologically, a bottle is a small butt, or barrel. The word comes ultimately from medieval Latin butticula, a diminutive form of late Latin buttis ‘cask’ (whence English butt ‘barrel’). It reached English via Old French botele. The 20th-century British colloquial meaning ‘nerve, courage’ comes from rhyming slang bottle and glass ‘class’. In medieval Latin, a servant who handed wine round at meals and looked after the wine cellar was a buticulārius: hence, via Old French bouteillier and Anglo-Norman buteler, English butler [13]. => butler
bottle (n.)
mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c.
bottle (v.)
1640s, from bottle (n.). Related: Bottled; bottling.
双语例句
1. As I sidestepped, the bottle hit me on the left hip.
我侧一步要躲闪的时候，瓶子打中了我的左髋部。
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2. We had a nice meal with a bottle of champagne.
我们美餐了一顿，还喝了一瓶香槟。
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3. I got a bottle of my best malt out of the sideboard.
我从餐具柜里取出一瓶自己收藏的最好的麦芽威士忌。
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4. I haven't come all this way to bottle out.
我一路走来不是为了在最后关头打退堂鼓。
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5. But will anyone have the bottle to go through with it?