short rifle, 1580s, from French carabine (Middle French carabin), used of light horsemen and also of the weapon they carried, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Medieval Latin Calabrinus "Calabrian" (i.e., "rifle made in Calabria"). A less-likely theory (Gamillscheg, etc.) connects it to Old French escarrabin "corpse-bearer during the plague," literally (probably) "carrion beetle," said to have been an epithet for archers from Flanders.
雙語例句
1. His carbine cracked when the infuriated elephant bore down on the hunters.
被激怒的象向獵人們沖過去時,他的沖鋒槍打響了.
來自辭典例句
2. Dalleson said it while he slipped the magazine out of the carbine.
達爾生一邊說,一邊卸下槍上的彈倉.
來自辭典例句
3. The crack of Dalleson's carbine sounded again.
達爾生的卡賓槍又砰地響了.
來自辭典例句
4. Lieutenant Hearn fingered the magazine on his carbine.
候恩少尉用手摸了一下卡賓槍的彈盒.
來自辭典例句
5. A sentinel struck the rings of his carbine against his left hand.