loop

英 [lu?p] 美[lup]

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復(fù)數(shù):?loops;第三人稱單數(shù):?loops;過(guò)去式:?looped;過(guò)去分詞:?looped;現(xiàn)在分詞:?looping;

1. (100 個(gè)人趴在地上，圍成了)環(huán)形。
2. in the loop / out of the loop 在/不在圈子。

loop 圈，環(huán)

來(lái)自中古英語(yǔ)loupe,繩索，套，詞源同leap,原義可能為套動(dòng)物的套索或套圈，后用來(lái)指圈，環(huán)。詞義演變比較farrow,furrow,pork.

loop (n.): late 14c., "loop of cloth, rope, leather, etc.," probably of Celtic origin (compare Gaelic lub "bend," Irish lubiam), influenced by or blended with Old Norse hlaup "a leap, run" (see leap (v.)). In reference to magnetic recording tape or film, first recorded 1931. Computer programming sense first attested 1947.
loop (v.): "to form a loop," c. 1400, "draw (a leash through a ring)," from loop (n.). Related: Looped; looping. Slang looped "drunk" is from 1934. Loop the loop (1900) originally was in reference to roller-coasters at amusement parks.
"Loop-the-Loop" is the name of a new entertainment which goes further in the way of tempting Providence than anything yet invented. The "Loop" is an immense circle of track in the air. A car on a mimic railway shoots down a very steep incline, and is impelled around the inner side of this loop. ... The authorities at Coney Island are said to have prohibited "looping-the-loop" because women break their corset strings in their efforts to catch their breath as they sweep down the incline, and moreover, a young man is reported to have ruptured a blood vessel in his liver. ["Philadelphia Medical Journal," Aug. 10, 1901]

1. I think that the vice president was in the loop.: 我認(rèn)為副總統(tǒng)是局內(nèi)人。