P

英 [pi:] 美[pi]

基本詞匯

P 英語字母表的第十六個(gè)字母

來自希臘字母pi, 來自原始西奈字母peh, 嘴。

P: a rare letter in the initial position in Germanic, in part because by Grimm's Law PIE p- became Germanic f-; even with the early Latin borrowings in Old English, -p- takes up a little over 4 pages in J.R. Clark Hall's "Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary," compared to 31 pages for B and more than 36 for F. But it now is the third-most-common initial letter in the English vocabulary, and with C and S comprises nearly a third of the dictionary, a testimony to the flood of words that have entered the language since 1066 from Latin, Greek, and French.

To mind one's Ps and Qs (1779), possibly is from confusion of these letters among children learning to write. Another theory traces it to old-time tavern-keepers tracking their patrons' bar tabs in pints and quarts. But see also to be P and Q (1610s), "to be excellent," a slang phrase said to derive from prime quality.

1. He signed up as a steward with P&O Lines.: 他簽約了P&O航運(yùn)公司，成為了一名乘務(wù)員。

3. At approxi-mately 11:30 p.m., Pollard finally gave his consent to the search.: 大概晚上11點(diǎn)半的時(shí)候，波拉德最終同意進(jìn)行搜查。

4. At about 4.30 p.m. Audrey arrived at the office.: 大約下午4點(diǎn)30分，奧德麗到了辦公室。

5. By the third lap Kinkead had touched 289 m.p.h.: 到第三圈時(shí)，金基德的車速達(dá)到了每小時(shí)289英里。

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