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pedal

英 ['ped(ə)l]美 ['pɛdl]

vi. 踩踏板；騎車

n. 踏板；腳蹬子

vt. 騎（自行車）；踩……的踏板

adj. 腳的；腳踏的

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星級詞彙:★★★

中文詞源

pedal 自行車踏板

來自PIE*ped,腳，詞源同foot,biped.引申詞義自行車踏板。

英語詞源

pedal

pedal: [17] Pedal is one of a group of English words which go back to Latin pēs ‘foot’ or its Romance descendants (to which English foot is reLated). Others include impede [17], pedestal [16] (which comes via French from Old Italian piedestallo, a conflation of pie di stallo ‘foot of a stall’), pedestrian [18], pedicure [19], pedigree, and pedometer [18].

=> foot, impede, pawn, pedestal, pedestrian, pedigree

pedal (n.)

1610s, "lever (on an organ) worked by foot," from French pédale "feet, trick with the feet," from Italian pedale "treadle, pedal," from Late Latin pedale "(thing) of the foot," neuter of Latin pedalis "of the foot," from pes (genitive pedis) "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).

Extended to various mechanical contrivances by 1789. Pedal steel guitar is from 1969. Pedal-pushers "type of women's trousers suitable for bicycling" is from 1944.

When college girls took to riding bicycles in slacks, they first rolled up one trouser leg, then rolled up both. This whimsy has now produced a trim variety of long shorts, called "pedal pushers." ["Life," Aug. 28, 1944]

pedal (v.)

1866 of musical organs, 1888 of bicycles, from pedal (n.). Related: Pedaled; pedaling.

權威例句

1. The harder the brake pedal is pressed, the greater the car's deceleration.

剎車踩得越用力，車子減速越猛。

2. Your foot falls off the pedal and you stall the car.

你的腳離開踏板，汽車便會熄火。

3. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal.

他拒絕降低對這起醜聞的調查力度。

4. He appeared to back-pedal on that statement.

他看起來想要收回聲明中說過的話。

5. The protests have forced the government to back-pedal on the new tax.

抗議活動已迫使政府撤銷新的稅目。

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