trinket

英语

词源

古英語 trenket (“一种刀”)，因此可能指的是一种作装饰的刀，可能源自trenchier (“切”)的一个古法語方言形式。对比trench。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

• （美国）音频：

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• (弱元音合併) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈtɹɪŋkət/
• 韻部：-ɪŋkɪt

名词

trinket (複數 trinkets)

1. 小装饰品；一小件珠宝

   That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.

   她脖子上的那个链子肯定花了她好多钱。

2. （不值钱的）玩意，小玩具

   It's only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.

   这就是一件小玩具，但是能让我想起她。

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxiii:

     There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition. Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the Exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.

3. (航海) （三角帆船之类上挂的）三角帆
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4. (棄用) 刀，刀具
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近义词

• (小装饰品)： 参见Thesaurus:trinket
• (玩意)： 参见Thesaurus:trifle

衍生词汇

• trinketry

动词

trinket (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 trinkets，現在分詞 trinketing，一般過去時及過去分詞 trinketed)

1. (棄用) 给...小玩意
   • 1991, Stan Hoig, Jesse Chisholm, Ambassador of the Plains:

     On June 26 the party of sun and wind - weathered visitors from the heart of the Texas plains , dressed in their blankets and buckskins , befeathered and trinketed , arrived at the capital city's Globe Hotel and took up residence there

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衍生词汇

• trinketer

异序词

• Knitter, knitter

德语

发音

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动词

trinket

1. trinken 的第二人稱複數虛擬式一式