Winchester
英 ['wɪntʃɪstə]
美 ['wɪn,tʃɪstɚ]
英文词源
- Winchester
- city in Hampshire, capital of Wessex and later of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Old English Uintancæstir (c.730), from Ouenta (c. 150), from Venta, a pre-Celtic name perhaps meaning "favored or chief place" + Old English ceaster "Roman town" (see Chester). As the name of a kind of breech-loading repeating rifle it is from the name of Oliver F. Winchester (1810-1880), U.S. manufacturer.
双语例句
- 1. Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things.
- 温切斯特先生知识广博，通晓万事。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. His relics are buried at Winchester.
- 他的遗骸葬在温彻斯特.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. They were all equipped with new Winchester rifles.
- 他们都配备着崭新的温彻斯特式来复枪.
来自辞典例句
- 4. You mean someone that ain't scared of a Winchester rifle?
- 你意思是说追击者不怕温彻斯特来福枪?
来自电影对白
- 5. Izaak Walton, English writer, died at Winchester aged 90.
- 英国作家艾扎克·沃尔顿在温切斯特去世,终年90岁.
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