polish的意思

polish

英式音标['pɑlɪʃ]
美式英标['pɒlɪʃ]

基本解释

n. 磨光，擦亮；擦亮剂；优雅，精良

vi. 擦亮，变光滑

vt. 磨光，使发亮；使完美; 改进

v. 磨光；修改；润色

adj. 波兰的

polish 擦亮，抛光

来自古法语poliss-,装饰，擦亮，使整洁，来自拉丁语polire,装饰，使整洁，来自PIE*pel,推，击打，驱动，踩踏，词源同impel,compel,fuller(漂洗工，洗衣工)。

polish: polish: [13] Latin polīre ‘make smooth and shiny’ is the ultimate source of English polish. It passed into Old French as polir, whose stem form was poliss- – whence polish. The element -pol- of English interpolate is related to polīre.
=> interpolate, polite
polish (v.): early 14c., polischen "make smooth," from Old French poliss-, present participle stem of polir (12c.) "to polish, decorate, see to one's appearance," from Latin polire "to polish, make smooth; decorate, embellish;" figuratively "refine, improve," said to be from Proto-Indo-European *pel- "to thrust, strike, drive" (via the notion of fulling cloth). The sense of "free from coarseness, to refine" first recorded in English mid-14c. Related: Polished; polishing. Slang polish off "finish" is 1837, from notion of applying a coat of polish being the final step in a piece of work.
polish (n.): 1590s, "absence of coarseness," from polish (v.). From 1704 as "act of polishing;" 1819 as "substance used in polishing."
Polish (adj.): 1670s, from Pole + -ish. Related: Polishness. Polish-American attested from 1898.

1. Those killed have been described as the flower of Polish manhood.: 那些牺牲者被称为波兰男子中的精英。

2. The president persuaded the West to write off Polish debts.: 总统说通西方免除波兰的债务。