• vt. 卷起；擠進(jìn)；用某物舒適地裹住；使有褶裥；收攏；大口吃；使隱藏
• n. 食物；船尾突出部；縫摺；抱膝式跳水；活力；鼓聲
• vi. 縫褶裥；縮攏；舒服地裹在里面；大口吃
• n. (Tuck)人名；(東南亞國家華語)德；(英)塔克

來自中古荷蘭語 tucken,卷起，折起，來自 Proto-Germanic*teug,拉，推，PIE*deuk,拉，推， 詞源同 duct,tug.后用于指把褲腳折邊，塞進(jìn)。

tuck

tuck: see tug

tuck (v.)

late 14c., "to pull or gather up," earlier "to pluck, stretch" (implied in tucker "one who finishes clothes by stretching them on tenters, late 13c. as a surname), probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch tucken "pull up, draw up, tug" (cognate with Old English tucian "mistreat, torment," and related to Old English togian "to pull," German zucken; see tow (v.)). Sense of "thrust into a snug place" is first recorded 1580s. Slang meaning "to consume, swallow, put into one's stomach" is recorded from 1784. Related: Tucked; tucking.

tuck (n.)

late 14c., "flattened fold in clothing, pleat," from tuck (v.). As a folded-up diving position, from 1951.

1. Tuck in, it's the last hot food you'll get for a while.

盡情地吃吧，一段時(shí)間里你都吃不到這么一頓熱飯了。

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2. He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers.

他設(shè)法把飄起的襯衫塞到褲子里。

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3. He stole a Mars bar from the school tuck shop.

他從學(xué)校小吃店偷了一條瑪氏巧克力棒。

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4. The extra income has meant Phillippa can tuck away the rent.

額外的收入意味著菲莉帕可以把房租的錢存起來。

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5. The seamstresses cluck around a dummy, discussing a tuck here and there.

這些女裁縫圍著模特兒衣架嘰嘰嘎嘎地討論衣服這里或那里要做的小改動(dòng)。

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