swab

英 [sw?b] 美[swɑb]

暢通詞匯

復數:?swabs;第三人稱單數:?swabs;過去式:?swabbed;過去分詞:?swabbed;現在分詞:?swabbing;

swab 拖把，抹布，清洗，擦拭，拭子，藥簽

縮寫自 swabber,拖把，尤指清掃甲板的拖把，來自荷蘭語 zwabber,來自 Proto-Germanic*swabb, 拖，可能來自擬聲詞，模仿拖地的聲音。后用于指醫用的拭子，藥簽，且成為主要詞義。

swab (n.): 1650s, "mop made of rope or yarn," from swabber (c. 1600) "mop for cleaning a ship's deck," from Dutch zwabber, akin to West Frisian swabber "mop," from Proto-Germanic *swabb-, perhaps of imitative origin, denoting back-and-forth motion, especially in liquid.

Non-nautical meaning "anything used for mopping up" is from 1787; as "cloth or sponge on a handle to cleanse the mouth, etc.," from 1854. Slang meaning "a sailor" first attested 1798, short for swabber "member of a ship's crew assigned to swab decks" (1590s), which by c. 1600 was being used in a broader sense of "one who behaves like a low-ranking sailor, one fit only to use a swab."
swab (v.): 1719, possibly a back-formation from swabber (see swab (n.)). Related: Swabbed; swabbing. Related: Swabification "mopping" (1833).

2. Yet I kind of think I've - yes, I've seen the swab.: 不過,我好像記起來了 —— 是的, 我見過這狗東西.

3. Administer the salve to the sunburned area with a cotton swab.: 請用棉藥簽把藥膏敷在曬傷的地方.

4. We have to swab out the sitting - room before your mother comes back.: 我們得在你媽媽回來之前把客廳擦洗干凈.

5. She used cotton wool to swab her wounds when they bled.: 傷口滲出來的血水需要棉花來抹掉.