axle

• n. 车轴；[车辆] 轮轴

来自PIE *aks, 轴。

axle

axle: [17] The word axle emerges surprisingly late considering the antiquity of axles, but related terms had existed in the language for perhaps a thousand years. Old English had eax, which came from a hypothetical Germanic *akhsō, related to Latin axis. This survived in the compound ax-tree until the 17th century (later in Scotland); tree in this context meant ‘beam’.

But from the early 14th century the native ax-tree began to be ousted by Old Norse öxultré (or as it became in English axle-tree); the element öxull came from a prehistoric Germanic *akhsulaz, a derivative of *akhsō. Axle first appeared on its own in the last decade of the 16th century (meaning ‘axis’, a sense it has since lost), and became firmly established in the early 17th century.

axle (n.)

"pole or pin upon which a wheel revolves," Middle English axel-, from some combination of Old English eax and Old Norse öxull "axis," both from Proto-Germanic *akhsulaz (cognates: Old English eaxl, Old Saxon ahsla, Old High German ahsala, German Achsel "shoulder"), from PIE *aks- "axis" (see axis). Found only in compound axletree before 14c.

来自《权威词典》

2. The rear axle carries the greatest weight.

后轴负荷最重的分量.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.

于是,轮子在轴上旋转.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The axle doesn't work smoothly. It needs oiling.

轮轴发涩, 该上油了.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. Frank abandoned his axle as the heat in it died.

由于车轴已经凉了,弗兰克扔下了它.

来自辞典例句