bottle
- n.
- 瓶子，酒瓶
- vt.
- 装瓶，抑制，围困
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English botel (“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula, diminutive of buttis (“cask”). Doublet of botija.
Displaced native pinne and non-native Old English ampella. Partially displaced Old English flasce.
释义（英文）
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- The contents of such a container.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- (UK, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- (figurative) Intoxicating
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl (“building, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel (“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel (“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol (“farm”), Icelandic ból (“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English bytlan (“to build”). More at