• n. 圍場；小牧場
• n. (Paddock)人名；(英、瑞典)帕多克

來自中古英語parrock,園子，圍欄，詞源同park.后引申詞義養(yǎng)馬的小圍場。字母d,r音變，比較meridian,middle.-ock,小詞后綴，詞源同hillock.

paddock

paddock: [17] Paddock is ultimately the same word as park. Their common ancestor was a prehistoric Germanic word which took a route through Latin and French to reach English as park. Its direct Old English descendant, however, was pearruc. This in due course became parrock, which survived dialectally into the 20th century. But in the early modern English period a variant form paddock appeared. It is not clear how this arose, but it may be a hypercorrect form reflecting the change in the opposite direction, from /d/ to /r/, in words such as porridge for pottage and geraway for get away.
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paddock (n.1)

"a frog, a toad," c. 1300, diminutive of pad "toad," from Old Norse padda; common Germanic (Swedish padda, Danish padde, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch padde "frog, toad," also Dutch schildpad "tortoise"), of unknown origin and with no certain cognates outside Germanic.

paddock (n.2)

"an enclosure," 1620s, alteration of Middle English parrock, from Old English pearroc "enclosed space, fence" (see park (n.)). Or possibly from Medieval Latin parricus (8c.), which ultimately is from Germanic.

1. Vaulting the stile, he headed diagonally across the paddock.

翻身躍過柵欄后，他便朝斜穿圍場的方向走去。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The family kept horses in the paddock in front of the house.

那戶人家把馬養(yǎng)在屋前的小圍場里。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Their paddock measures 24 metres square.

他們的圍場為24米見方。

來自柯林斯例句

4. I rode bareback to the paddock.

我騎著無鞍馬來到了牧場。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He keeps horses in a paddock behind his house.

他把馬養(yǎng)在屋后的小圍場里.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》