plummet
英语
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词源
编辑源自中古英语 plommet (“铅球，摆锤”)，自1382年有书面记录，源自古法语 plommet或者plomet，plom、plum (“测深锤”)的指小词，源自拉丁语 plumbum (“铅”)。动词最早记录见于1626年，表示“测量，测深”，其源自名词。
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编辑名词
编辑plummet (复数 plummets)
- (古旧，航海) 测深锤；铅锤
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Tempest
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 28:17:
- Iudgement also will I lay to the line, and righteousnesse to the plummet: and the haile shall sweepe away the refuge of lyes, and the waters shall ouerflow the hiding place.
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- Template:RQ:Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit
- Template:RQ:London White Fang
- Template:RQ:Burroughs Return of Tarzan
- (古旧) 重物
- 1945, Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company，第 93 页:
- His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet.
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- (古旧) 锤规 （一种曾在学校里使用的在纸上划线的铅）
- 重重的跌落
- (比喻义) 下降，暴跌
动词
编辑plummet (第三人称单数简单现在时 plummets，现在分词 plummeting 或 plummetting，一般过去时及过去分词 plummeted 或 plummetted)
- (不及物) 重重地，快速地跌落；暴跌，骤降
- After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
- 箭上升以后，快速地射向地面。
- 2022年10月4日, Kate Conger, Lauren Hirsch, “Elon Musk Suggests Buying Twitter at His Original Price”, 出自 The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Some speculated Twitter’s stock would plummet, while another said the company would not have to be owned by “a moron,” using an expletive to refer to Mr. Musk.
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- 2022年12月14日, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains... and no one in charge seems to 'give a damn'”, 出自 RAIL, 第 972 期，第 46 页:
- Passenger numbers had been rising sharply. But the replacement of the services by buses, which take far longer because of the number of stations in out-of-the-way villages on the route, will ensure they plummet again.
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