chopstick: [17] A chopstick is literally a ‘quick stick’. The element chop occurs more recognizably in chop-chop ‘quickly’; it is a Pidgin English modification of Cantonese Chinese gap ‘urgent’. ‘Quick stick’ is a rather free translation of the Chinese term for ‘chopsticks’, Cantonese kuàizi, literally ‘fast ones, nimble ones’. => chop-chop
chopstick (n.)
also chop-stick, 1690s, sailors' partial translation of Chinese k'wai tse, variously given as "fast ones" or "nimble boys," first element from pidgin English chop, from Cantonese kap "urgent." Chopsticks, the two-fingered piano exercise, is first attested 1893, probably from the resemblance of the fingers to chopsticks.
雙語例句
1. The chopstick I poked your arm with is on the floor.
直譯:我戳你的那根筷子現(xiàn)在在地板上.
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2. A 20 - year old tree could produce 3000 - 4000 pairs of chopstick.
一棵生長了20年的大樹,僅能制成3000至4000雙筷子.
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3. Wife: No ! I don't want it because your chopstick touch it.
老婆: 你的臟筷子碰過的,誰吃!
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4. Soak disposable chopstick in hot water before use to release carbon dioxide.
宜先用熱水浸泡,時(shí)間越久二氧化硫釋出越多.
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5. He put the chopstick and watched as the bee dried out.