词汇 | shuttle |
词源 | shuttle [OE] Old English scytel meant ‘dart, missile’ and is from a Germanic source; Old Norse skutill ‘harpoon’ is related. The use for a form of transport going backwards and forwards between two fixed places stems from association with the movement of the the dart-like shuttle used in weaving going from one side of the loom to the other. |
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