nutshell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut.
    — For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
  2. A short book summarizing an area of law.
  3. A small boat; a boat considered small in comparison to the seas.
    — [A]t last the fishing-line stood straight out behind, and the stone weights jumped along the tops of the billows, while the seas - notwithstanding the guiding hand of the pilot sought to avoid them - broke over our little nutshell, and sent the spray high above mast and sail.
动词 v.
  1. To summarize (from the term in a nutshell). transitive

词形变化

nutshells plural nutshells present,singular,third-person nutshelling participle,present nutshelled participle,past nutshelled past

词汇关系

衍生词
cashew nutshell liquid in a nutshell

词源

词源 1
From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *hnutskallju, equivalent to nut + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nuteskele, Nuteskil (“nutshell”), Dutch notenschaal (“nutshell”), German Nussschale (“nutshell”).
词源 2
From Middle English notschelle, from Old English hnutsċiell, from Proto-West Germanic *hnutskallju, equivalent to nut + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Nuteskele, Nuteskil (“nutshell”), Dutch notenschaal (“nutshell”), German Nussschale (“nutshell”).
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