drake: English has two words drake, but the older, ‘dragon’ [OE] (which comes via prehistoric West Germanic *drako from Latin dracō, source of English dragon), has now more or less disappeared from general use (it is still employed for a sort of fishing fly). Drake ‘male duck’ [13] probably goes back to (another) prehistoric West Germanic *drako, preserved also in the second element of German enterich ‘male duck’. => dragon
drake (n.1)
"male duck," c. 1300, unrecorded in Old English but may have existed then, from West Germanic *drako (cognates: Low German drake, second element of Old High German anutrehho, dialectal German Drache).
drake (n.2)
archaic for "dragon," from Old English draca "dragon, sea monster, huge serpent," from Proto-Germanic *drako (cognates: Middle Dutch and Old Frisian drake, Dutch draak, Old High German trahho, German drache), an early borrowing from Latin draco (see dragon).
实用例句
1. Drake and his cohorts were not pleased with my appointment.
德雷克那一帮人对我的任命很不满。
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2. I brought in one drake and three ducks.
我弄来一只公鸭和三只母鸭。
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3. Plymouth Hoe is renowned as the site where Drake played bowls before tackling the Spanish Armada.
普利茅斯高地是德雷克在打败西班牙无敌舰队之前玩木球游戏的旧址，因此广为人知。
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4. Drake is sure to open a hotel here in September. "
