hop
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /hɒp/
美 /hɑp/|/hɔp/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A short jump.
— The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.
- Synonym of half-op.
- A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
- A jump on one leg.
- The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
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A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
— My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.
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Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
— ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
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A brief period of development or progress.
— For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.
- A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
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A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
— 1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked.
- The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
动词 v.
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To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
— If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping[…]
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To jump a short distance.
— When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
- To jump on one foot.
- To gather hops.
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To be in state of energetic activity.
— Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
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To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
— I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
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To jump onto, or over
— They hop the curb and cut their engines.
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To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
— We were party-hopping all weekend.
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To go in a quick or sudden manner.
— We hopped on the freeway heading to LA and I looked over at the dashboard and saw the needle back on “E” and I told the guy, “Hey! You going to make it with the gas you got?"
- To dance.
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To walk lame; to limp.
— The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]
词汇关系
衍生词
bad hop
bunny hop
car hop
caught on the hop
hip-hop
hippety-hop
hop and bop
hop clover
hop merchant
hoptree
hop trefoil
in-between hop
Lindy Hop
long hop
multihop
off the hop
on the hop
pro hop
record hop
short hop
side-straddle hop
sock hop
spyhop
common hop
dry hop
dry-hopped
hopback
hopbine
hopbush
hop dog
hop field
hop flea
hop fly
hop-forward
hop garden
hophead
hophornbeam
hop joint
hopless
hop picker
hop pocket
Hop Pole
hoppy
hopsack
hopsacking
hopvine
hopyard
Japanese hop
mad as hops
noble hops
词源
词源 1
From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”).
Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).
Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).
词源 2
From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.
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