cul-de-sac
名词 n.
英 /ˈkʌldəsak/
美 /ˈkʌldəsæk/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A blind alley or dead end street.
— Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac.
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A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.
— And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs.
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An impasse.
— Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.
- A sacklike cavity, a tube open at one end only.
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Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.
Proto-Italic *kūlos
Latin cūlus
Old French cul
Middle French cul
French cul
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Old French de
Middle French de
French de
Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor.
Latin saccus
Old French sac
French sac
French cul-de-sacbor.
English cul-de-sac
Borrowed from French cul-de-sac, from cul (“bottom”) + de (“of”) + sac (“bag, sack”).
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.
Proto-Italic *kūlos
Latin cūlus
Old French cul
Middle French cul
French cul
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Old French de
Middle French de
French de
Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor.
Latin saccus
Old French sac
French sac
French cul-de-sacbor.
English cul-de-sac
Borrowed from French cul-de-sac, from cul (“bottom”) + de (“of”) + sac (“bag, sack”).
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