crop英 [kr?p]美 [krɑp]n.產量;農作物;莊稼;平頭。vt.種植;收割;修剪;剪短。vi.收獲。

中文詞源

crop莊稼，收割

來自PIE*ger, 團，塊，群，詞源同grape, group。原指鳥的嗉囔，后主要指成熟的莊稼穗。

英文詞源

crop

crop:[OE] Old Englishcroppmeant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in other Germanic languages, including Germankropfand Dutchkrop, are used for ‘bird’s craw’ but also for various bodily swellings in the throat and elsewhere, indicating the word’s underlying meaning is ‘round mass, lump’.

Its Germanic ancestor, *kruppō, was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *cruppa, which made its way via Old French into English ascroup‘horse’s (round) rump’ [13], and as the derivativecrupper[13].Croupier[18] is based on Frenchcroupe, having originally meant ‘person who rides on the rump, behind the saddle’. The Germanic base *krup- ‘round mass, lump’ is also the ancestor of Englishgroup.

=>croup,croupier,crupper,group

crop (n.)

Old Englishcropp"bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." The common notion is "protuberance." Cognate with Old High Germankropf, Old Norsekroppr. Meaning "harvest product" is c. 1300, probably through the verbal meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c. 1200).

crop (v.)

"cut off the top of a plant," c. 1200, fromcrop(n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related:Cropped;cropping. Women's fashioncrop topis attested from 1984.

雙語例句

1. I let the horse drop his head tocropthe spring grass.

我讓馬低下頭啃吃春天的青草。

2. Problems willcropup and hit you before you are ready.

你還未準備好，問題就會突然出現并打擊你。

3. I decided tocropthe picture just above the water line.

我決定把這張照片水印以下的部分裁掉。

4. Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded acropworth $1.75 billion.

去年40萬英畝的土地產值達17.5億美元。

5. Thecroprepresents a tiny fraction of U.S. production.

農作物僅占美國出產物極小的一部分。