crop怎么读？crop是什么意思？

crop英 [krɒp]美 [krɑp]n.产量;农作物;庄稼;平头。vt.种植;收割;修剪;剪短。vi.收获。

中文词源

crop庄稼，收割

来自PIE*ger, 团，块，群，词源同grape, group。原指鸟的嗉囔，后主要指成熟的庄稼穗。

英文词源

crop

crop:[OE] Old Englishcroppmeant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in other Germanic languages, including Germankropfand Dutchkrop, are used for ‘bird’s craw’ but also for various bodily swellings in the throat and elsewhere, indicating the word’s underlying meaning is ‘round mass, lump’.

Its Germanic ancestor, *kruppō, was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *cruppa, which made its way via Old French into English ascroup‘horse’s (round) rump’ [13], and as the derivativecrupper[13].Croupier[18] is based on Frenchcroupe, having originally meant ‘person who rides on the rump, behind the saddle’. The Germanic base *krup- ‘round mass, lump’ is also the ancestor of Englishgroup.

=>croup,croupier,crupper,group

crop (n.)

Old Englishcropp"bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." The common notion is "protuberance." Cognate with Old High Germankropf, Old Norsekroppr. Meaning "harvest product" is c. 1300, probably through the verbal meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c. 1200).

crop (v.)

"cut off the top of a plant," c. 1200, fromcrop(n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related:Cropped;cropping. Women's fashioncrop topis attested from 1984.

双语例句

1. I let the horse drop his head tocropthe spring grass.

我让马低下头啃吃春天的青草。

2. Problems willcropup and hit you before you are ready.

你还未准备好，问题就会突然出现并打击你。

3. I decided tocropthe picture just above the water line.

我决定把这张照片水印以下的部分裁掉。

4. Last year 400,000 acres of land yielded acropworth $1.75 billion.

去年40万英亩的土地产值达17.5亿美元。

5. Thecroprepresents a tiny fraction of U.S. production.

农作物仅占美国出产物极小的一部分。