ditch: [OE] Like its close relative dyke [13], ditch probably comes ultimately from a long-lost language once spoken on the shores of the Baltic. Its source-word seems to have represented an all-embracing notion of ‘excavation’, including not just the hole dug but also the mound formed from the excavated earth (which perhaps supports the suggestion that dig belongs to the same word-family). This dichotomy of sense is preserved in dyke, whose original meaning, from Old Norse dík, was ‘ditch’, but which came in the 15th century to denote ‘embankment’ (probably under the influence of Middle Dutch dijc ‘dam’). => dig, dyke
ditch (n.)
Old English dic "ditch, dike," a variant of dike (q.v.). Last ditch (1715) refers to the last line of military defenses.
ditch (v.)
late 14c., "surround with a ditch; dig a ditch;" from ditch (n.). Meaning "to throw into a ditch" is from 1816, hence sense of "abandon, discard," first recorded 1899 in American English. Of aircraft, by 1941. Related: Ditched; ditching.
实用例句
1. I can't bring myself to ditch him and start again.
我不忍心蹬掉他再觅新欢。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.
我们仅能依稀辨出桥下一条杂草丛生的窄沟。
来自柯林斯例句
3. She underwent a heart transplant in a last-ditch attempt to save her.
她动了心脏移植手术，这是为挽救她的生命而作的最后一次努力。
来自《权威词典》
4. The bicycle lay upended in a ditch.
自行车翻倒在一条小水沟里。
来自《权威词典》
5. With the blind leading the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
