英语词汇valve的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	valve
词源	valve [LME] Latin valva meant a leaf of a door, and valve entered the language with this sense. From this the sense of a lid or flap that controlled the passage of gas or fluids developed in the mid 17th century.
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