picket

• n. 警戒哨；纠察队；[建] 尖木桩
• vt. 派……担任纠察；用尖桩围住
• vi. 担任纠察
• n. (Picket)人名；(英)皮克特

来自法语piquet,尖木桩，来自piquer,刺，刺穿，词源同pike,pique.原指对抗骑兵的竖在地上的尖刺或木桩，引申词义看守敌人的巡逻队，后引申现词义。

picket (n.)

1680s, "pointed stake (for defense against cavalry, etc.)," from French piquet "pointed stake," from piquer "to pierce" (see pike (n.2)). Sense of "troops posted to watch for enemy" first recorded 1761; that of "striking workers stationed to prevent others from entering a factory" is from 1867. Picket line is 1856 in the military sense, 1945 of labor strikes.

picket (v.)

1745, "to enclose with pickets," from picket (n.). The sense in labor strikes, protests, etc., is attested from 1867. Related: Picketed; picketing.

1. There are picket lines all over the place.

到处都有罢工纠察线。

来自柯林斯例句

2. No one tried to cross the picket lines.

没人试图穿过纠察线。

来自柯林斯例句

3. Fire crews refused to cross the picket line.

消防人员拒不冲破围厂队伍人墙。

来自《权威词典》

4. He lives in a white-painted frame house behind a picket fence up in Connecticut.

他住在康涅狄格州北部一个漆成白色的木制房子里，屋子前面竖着尖桩篱栅。

来自柯林斯例句

5. The miners are trying to get factory workers to join them on the picket line.

矿工正设法让工厂工人加入他们的纠察队人墙。

来自柯林斯例句