pulley: [14] Although pulleys are used for ‘pulling’, there is no etymological connection between the two words. Pulley comes via Old French polie from Vulgar Latin *polidia, which was probably borrowed from the plural of a medieval Greek *polidion, a diminutive form of Greek pólos ‘pole, pivot’ (source of English pole ‘extremity’). => pole
pulley (n.)
late 13c., from Old French polie, pulie "pulley, windlass" (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin poliva, puliva, probably from Medieval Greek *polidia, plural of *polidion "little pivot," diminutive of Greek polos "pivot, axis" (see pole (n.2)). As a verb from 1590s.
双语例句
1. The stone was lifted by means of a rope and pulley.
这块大石是用绳子和滑轮给吊起来的.
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2. The worker threaded the wire through the pulley.
工人把金属丝穿在滑轮上.
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3. The weights are moved via a cable and pulley system.
重物通过缆绳和滑轮系统运送。
来自辞典例句
4. The individual strands of each cable were hung in pulley blocks.
每根钢索的单股钢丝束悬挂在滑车组上.
来自辞典例句
5. The belt started wrapping up on the tractor pulley.
