bloat: [13] Bloat has a confused and uncertain history. It seems first to have appeared on the scene in the 13th century as an adjective, blout, meaning ‘soft, flabby’, a probable borrowing from Old Norse blautr ‘soft from being cooked with liquid’. This occurs only once, and does not resurface until the early 17th century, in Hamlet as it happens, as blowt: ‘Let the blowt king tempt you again to bed’.
This appears to be the same word as turns up slightly later in the century as bloat, its meaning showing signs of changing from ‘flabby’ to ‘puffed up’. Then in the 1660s we encounter bloated ‘puffed up, swollen’, which paved the way for the verb bloat, first recorded in the 1670s. It is not clear whether bloater [19] comes from the same source. Its linguistic ancestor is the bloat herring [16], which may perhaps have been given its name on the grounds that herrings preserved by light smoking are plumper than those fully dried.
bloat (v.)
1670s, "to cause to swell" (earlier, in reference to cured fish, "to cause to be soft," 1610s), from now obsolete bloat (adj.), attested from c. 1300 as "soft, flabby, flexible, pliable," but by 17c. meaning "puffed up, swollen." Perhaps from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blautr "soaked, soft from being cooked in liquid" (compare Swedish bl?t fisk "soaked fish"), possibly from Proto-Germanic *blaut-, from PIE *bhleu- "to swell, well up, overflow," an extension of root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).
Influenced by or combined with Old English blawan "blow, puff." Figurative use by 1711. Intransitive meaning "to swell, to become swollen" is from 1735. Related: Bloated; bloating.
bloat (n.)
1860 as a disease of livestock, from bloat (v.). Meaning "bloatedness" is from 1905.
雙語例句
1. As a result, during the boom, British banks were allowed to bloat.
其結(jié)果是, 英國各家銀行得以在繁榮時期不斷膨脹.
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2. One major pitfall to look out for is feature bloat.
可以預計,將會遇到的一個主要缺陷是特性膨脹.
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3. That gum bloat came on the side of big tooth, good ache, how should I do?
大板牙旁邊那個牙齦腫起來了, 好疼啊, 我應(yīng)該怎么辦?
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4. Bloat is sitting on the floor , working the banana peel into pajama lapel for a boutonni è re.
布婁特就地坐著, 把香蕉皮搗弄成一朵花,別到翻領(lǐng)一側(cè)的紐扣眼里.
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5. They get all the functionality without the bloat, and possibly at a lesser cost.