| 词汇 | boot |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： 1. boot (1) "footwear," early 14c., from O.Fr. bote "boot" (12c.), with corresponding words in Prov. and Sp., of unknown origin, perhaps from a Gmc. source. Originally for riding boots only. The verb meaning "kick" is Amer.Eng. 1877; that of "eject" is from 1880. 2. boot (2) "profit, use," O.E. bot "help, relief, advantage; atonement," lit. "a making better," from P.Gmc. *boto (see better). Cf. Ger. Buße "penance, atonement," Goth. botha "advantage." Now mostly in phrase to boot (O.E. to bote). 3. boot (3) "start up a computer," 1975, from bootstrap (n.), 1953, "fixed sequence of instructions to load the operating system of a computer," on notion of the first-loaded program pulling itself, and the rest, up by the bootstraps. 词根记忆： n. 靴;(汽车后部的)行李箱;解雇After a shot the foot began to root and shoot in the boot.打了一针后,脚开始在靴子里生根发芽. |
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