rung

• n. 横档，脚蹬横木；地位
• v. 给…打电话（ring的过去式和过去分词）
• n. (Rung)人名；(泰、柬、瑞典)龙；(芬、德、匈)龙格

来自古英语 hrung,横杆，挡板。后用于指梯子的横档，梯级。

rung (n.)

Old English hrung "rod, bar," from Proto-Germanic *khrungo (cognates: Middle Low German runge, Old High German runga "stake, stud, stave," German Runge "stake, stud, stave," Middle Dutch ronghe, Dutch rong "rung," Gothic hrugga "staff"), of unknown origin with no connections outside Germanic. Sense in English narrowed to "round or stave of a ladder" (first attested late 13c.), but usage of cognate words remains more general in other Germanic languages.

This [rungs] has generally been considered as a mere corruption of rounds; and people of education use only this latter word. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary or Collection of Words and Phrases which have been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]

来自柯林斯例句

2. She'd rung up to discuss the divorce.

她打过电话来协商离婚事宜。

来自柯林斯例句

3. She has rung home just once.

她只给家里打了一次电话。

来自柯林斯例句

4. He put his foot on the bottom rung to keep the ladder steady.

他用脚踩住最底下的横档稳住梯子。

来自《权威词典》

5. Hold the ladder tightly and move up a rung at a time.

抓紧梯子一级一级地往上爬.

来自《简明英汉词典》