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drag是什么意思

drag

英 [dr?g] 美 [dr?g]

vt. 拖累；拖拉；緩慢而吃力地行進
vi. 拖曳；緩慢而吃力地行進
n. 拖；拖累
n. (Drag)人名；(匈)德勞格

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1、tract- => drag.

中文詞源

drag 拉

來自PIE*dhragh, 拉，詞源同draw, tractor.

英文詞源

drag: drag: [14] Drag has two possible sources, each with equally plausible claims: Old English dragan, source of modern English draw, or the related Old Norse draga. Both go back to a common Germanic source. Of the modern colloquial applications of the word, ‘women’s clothes worn by men’ seems to have originated in 19th-century theatrical slang, in reference to the ‘dragging’ of a woman’s long skirts along the ground (an unusual sensation for someone used to wearing trousers).
=> draw
drag (v.): mid-15c., from Old Norse draga, or a dialectal variant of Old English dragan "to draw," both from Proto-Germanic *dragan "to draw, pull," from PIE root *dhragh- "to draw, drag on the ground" (cognates: Sanskrit dhrajati "pulls, slides in," Russian drogi "wagon;" but not considered to be directly the source of Latin trahere).

Meaning "to take a puff" (of a cigarette, etc.) is from 1914. Related: Dragged; dragging. Drag-out "violent fight" is from c. 1859. To drag (one's) feet (1946, in figurative sense) supposedly is from logging, from a lazy way to use a two-man saw.
drag (n.): c. 1300, "dragnet," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Swedish dragg "grapnel") or from Old English dr?ge "dragnet," related to dragan "to draw" (see drag (v.)).

Sense of "annoying, boring person or thing" is 1813, perhaps from the notion of something that must be dragged as an impediment. Sense of "women's clothing worn by a man" is said to be 1870 theater slang, from the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor (another guess is Yiddish trogn "to wear," from German tragen); drag queen is from 1941.

Drag racing (1947), is said to be from thieves' slang drag "automobile" (1935), perhaps ultimately from slang sense of "wagon, buggy" (1755), because a horse would drag it. By 1851 this was transferred to "street," as in the phrase main drag (which some propose as the source of the racing sense).
In addition to the time trials there are a number of "drag races" between two or more cars. They are run, not for record, but to satisfy the desire of most Americans to see who can get from here to there in the fastest time. ["Popular Mechanics," January 1947]

雙語例句

1. Use your mouse to drag the pictures to their new size.: 用鼠標拖動圖片，將其調整為新的尺寸。

2. There's no telling how long the talks could drag on.: 誰也說不準談判還會拖多久。

3. I find it really hard to drag myself out and exercise regularly.: 我發現要讓我自己定期出門鍛煉真的很難。

4. The neighborhood is given over to performers, stilt walkers and drag queens.: 社區變成了玩雜耍的、踩高蹺的和扮裝皇后的天地。

5. The company was willing to drag out the proceedings for years.: 公司愿意將訴訟拖上幾年。

drag是什么意思

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