cover: [13] Cover comes ultimately from Latin cooperīre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- ‘completely’ and operīre ‘cover’ (a relative of aperīre ‘open’, from which English gets aperient). It passed into English via Old French cuvrir or covrir. Derivatives include coverlet [13] (in which the final element represents not the diminutive suffix but French lit ‘bed’, the word being a borrowing from Anglo-Norman covrelit, literally ‘bed-cover’) and kerchief (literally ‘head-cover’), as in handkerchief. => aperient, discover
cover (v.)
mid-12c., from Old French covrir (12c., Modern French couvrir) "to cover, protect, conceal, dissemble," from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperire "to cover over, overwhelm, bury," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + operire "to close, cover" (see weir). Related: Covered; covering. Military sense is from 1680s; newspaper sense first recorded 1893; use in football dates from 1907. Betting sense is 1857. Of horses, as a euphemism for "copulate" it dates from 1530s. Covered wagon attested from 1745.
cover (n.)
early 13c., in compounds, from cover (v.). Meaning "recording of a song already recorded by another" is 1966. Cover girl is U.S. slang from 1915, shortening of magazine-cover girl.
雙語例句
1. Just play it safe, cover your ass, keep your head down.
要謹慎行事，保護好自己并保持低調。
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2. Pack the fruits and nuts into the jars and cover with brandy.
把水果和堅果放進罐子里，用白蘭地酒浸泡。
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3. I should point out that these estimates cover just the hospital expenditures.
我應該指出，這些估算僅包括醫院的費用。
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4. The cashier dived for cover when a gunman opened fire.
出納員在持槍歹徒開槍時沖向藏身處。
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5. A cheap table can be transformed by an interesting cover.