mallet

• n. 棒，槌棒；木槌；球棍
• n. (Mallet)人名；(法)馬萊；(葡)馬萊特；(英)馬利特

來自拉丁語malleus,鐵錘，詞源同malleable,-et,小詞后綴。

mallet

mallet: [15] Latin malleus meant ‘hammer’ (it may be related to Latin molere ‘grind’, and to Russian mólot and Polish m?ot ‘hammer’). It passed into Old French as mail, of which the derivative maillet eventually reached English as mallet. Mail itself was borrowed into English as maul ‘hammer’ [13], but it now survives only as a verb (which originally meant ‘hit with a hammer’).

The Latin verb derived from malleus was malleāre ‘hit with a hammer’, from which ultimately English gets malleable [14]. And the Italian descendant of malleus, maglio, was combined with a word for ‘ball’, palla, to form the name of a croquet-like game, pallamaglio; via French this passed into English as pall-mall [17], remembered in the London street-names Pall Mall and The Mall (whence the use of mall [18] for a ‘walkway’ or ‘promenade’, and latterly for a ‘shopping precinct’).
=> mall, malleable, maul, pall-mall

mallet (n.)

late 14c., from Old French maillet "mallet, small wooden hammer, door-knocker," diminutive of mail, from Latin malleus "a hammer," from PIE *mal-ni-, from root *mel- (1) "soft," with derivatives referring to softened material and tools for grinding (cognates: Hittite mallanzi "they grind;" Armenian malem "I crush, bruise;" Greek malakos "soft," mylos "millstone;" Latin molere "to grind," mola "millstone, mill," milium "millet;" Old English melu "meal, flour;" Albanian miel "meal, flour;" Old Church Slavonic meljo, Lithuanian malu "to grind;" Old Church Slavonic mlatu, Russian molotu "hammer").

1. He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.

他用木槌猛敲木栓頂。

來自辭典例句

2. The chairman rapped on the table twice with his mallet.

主席用他的小木槌在桌上重敲了兩下。

來自辭典例句

3. Hold this mallet half moon shape, not hold tightly.

這槌的拿法是拿半月形的, 不能都整個(gè)抓握.

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4. Sounds solid : made by the mallet of Los Demiurgos.

聽上去蠻實(shí),一定是巨匠造物主那把木槌的響聲.

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5. Take the plough thethe mallet the lute.

帶上耕犁,帶上煉爐,帶上木槌,帶上詩琴.

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