gag
英式音标[gæg]
美式英标[gæg]
基本解释
vt. 塞住…的口；钳制…的言论；使窒息
vi. 插科打诨；窒息；作呕
n. 塞口物；讨论终结；箝制言论
n. (Gag)人名；(英)加格
英文词源
- gag
- gag: [15] Middle English gaggen meant ‘strangle, suffocate’, so the word started out with strong connotations that seem to have become submerged in local dialects as it came to be used more commonly in the milder sense ‘obstruct someone’s mouth’. In the 20th century, however, they have re-emerged in the intransitive sense ‘choke’. It is not clear how the 19th-century noun sense ‘joke’ is connected, if at all. As for the word’s source, it is generally said to have originated as an imitation of someone retching or choking.
- gag (v.)
- mid-15c., transitive, "to choke, strangle" (someone), possibly imitative and perhaps influenced by Old Norse gag-hals "with head thrown back." The sense of "stop a person's mouth by thrusting something into it" is first attested c. 1500. Intransitive sense of "to retch" is from 1707. Transitive meaning "cause to heave with nausea" is from 1945. Related: Gagged; gagging.
- gag (n.2)
- "a joke," 1863, especially a practical joke, probably related to theatrical sense of "matter interpolated in a written piece by the actor" (1847); or from the sense "made-up story" (1805); or from slang verbal sense of "to deceive, take in with talk" (1777), all of which perhaps are from gag (v.) on the notion of "to stuff, fill" (see gag (v.)). Gagster "comedian" is by 1932.
- gag (n.1)
- "something thrust into the mouth or throat to prevent speaking," 1550s, from gag (v.); figurative use, "violent or authoritative repression of speech," is from 1620s. Gag-law in reference to curbs on freedom of the press is from 1798, American English. The gag-rule that blocked anti-slavery petitions in the U.S. House of Representatives was in force from 1836 to 1844.
实用例句
- 1. His captors had put a gag of thick leather in his mouth.
- 劫持者用一块厚厚的皮革堵住了他的嘴。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Each gag was rewarded with a generous belly-laugh.
- 每一次插科打诨都引来一阵开怀大笑。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. They tied him up and put a gag on him.
- 他们把他绑起来并用布堵住了他的嘴.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The robbers rammed the gag in her mouth.
- 强盗用力将堵嘴物塞进她口中.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.
- 那帮歹徒把保安人员捆绑起来,然后把他的嘴堵住.
来自《简明英汉词典》
