plummet
英語
編輯
詞源
編輯源自中古英語 plommet (「鉛球，擺錘」)，自1382年有書面記錄，源自古法語 plommet或者plomet，plom、plum (「測深錘」)的指小詞，源自拉丁語 plumbum (「鉛」)。動詞最早記錄見於1626年，表示「測量，測深」，其源自名詞。
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編輯名詞
編輯plummet (複數 plummets)
- (古舊，航海) 測深錘；鉛錘
- 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
- (古舊) 重物
- 1945, Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe, The World Publishing Company，第 93 頁:
- His parachute was shot half away, and if he'd jumped he would have fallen like a plummet.
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- (古舊) 錘規 （一種曾在學校里使用的在紙上劃線的鉛）
- 重重的跌落
- (比喻義) 下降，暴跌
動詞
編輯plummet (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 plummets，現在分詞 plummeting 或 plummetting，一般過去時及過去分詞 plummeted 或 plummetted)
- (不及物) 重重地，快速地跌落；暴跌，驟降
- After its ascent, the arrow plummeted to earth.
- 箭上升以後，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 頁:
- 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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