| 词汇 | drag |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： mid-15c., from O.N. draga, or a dialect variant of O.E. dragan "to draw," from P.Gmc. *dragan "to draw, pull," from PIE base *dhragh- "to draw, drag on the ground" (cf. Skt. dhrajati "pulls, slides in," Rus. drogi "wagon," and related to L. trahere; see tract (1)). Related: Dragged; dragging. Meaning "to take a puff" (of a cigarette, etc.) is from 1914. Sense of "annoying, boring person or thing" is 1813; 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 Ger. tragen); drag queen is from 1941. Drag-out "violent fight" is from c.1859. Drag racing (1954) is 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, and it was adopted by hot rodders for "race on city streets." To drag (one's) feet (1946, in figurative sense) is supposedly from logging, from a lazy way to use a two-man saw. 词根记忆： v. 拖,拖曳The ragged man drags a waggon of rag fragments.那个衣衫褴褛的人拉着一货车破布碎片. |
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