shuttle

英 ['ʃʌt(ə)l] 美['ʃʌtl]

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复数: shuttles;第三人称单数: shuttles;过去式: shuttled;现在分词: shuttling;

shuttle 梭子，穿梭，往返

来自古英语 scytel,飞镖，箭，来自 Proto-Germanic*skut,投射，掷，来自 PIE*skeud,投，扔，射，推，词源同 shoot,shot,shut.引申词义梭子，穿梭，往返等。

shuttle: shuttle: [OE] A shuttle is etymologically something that is ‘shot’. Indeed, the word’s Old English precursor scytel meant ‘arrow’ or ‘dart’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *skaut-, *skeut-, *skut- ‘project’, which also produced English shoot and shut. There is a gap between the disappearance of Old English scytel and the emergence of shuttle in the 14th century, but they are presumably the same word (a shuttle being something that is thrown or ‘shot’ across a loom).
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shuttle (n.): Old English scytel "a dart, arrow," from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz (cognates: Old Norse skutill "harpoon"), from PIE *skeud- "to shoot, to chase, to throw, to project" (see shoot (v.)). The original sense in English is obsolete; the weaving instrument so called (mid-14c.) from being "shot" across the threads. Sense of "train that runs back and forth" is first recorded 1895, from image of the weaver's instrument's back-and-forth movement over the warp; extended to aircraft 1942, to spacecraft 1969. In some other languages, the weaving instrument takes its name from its resemblance to a boat (Latin navicula, French navette, German weberschiff).
shuttle (v.): 1550s, "move rapidly to and fro," from shuttle (n.); sense of "transport via a shuttle service" is recorded from 1930. Related: Shuttled; shuttling.

1. The space shuttle had been scheduled to blast off at 04:38.: 航天飞机已经预定于凌晨4点38分发射升空。

2. The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to earth today.: “亚特兰蒂斯”号航天飞机今天安全返回地球。

3. A courtesy shuttle bus operates between the hotel and the town.: 有免费班车往返于酒店和市区。

4. UN mediators are conducting shuttle diplomacy between the two sides.: 联合国调解员在双方之间进行穿梭外交。

5. A hydrogen leak forced NASA to ground the space shuttle.: 氢气泄漏迫使美国国家航空航天局停止了航天飞机的发射。