racket

英 ['r?k?t] 美['r?k?t]

CET6TEM8CET4IELTS考研低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?rackets;

1. rack, rake => racket.
2. rattle => racket.
3. racquet => racket.

racket 吵鬧，喧嘩，詐騙

擬聲詞，模仿嘰嘰喳喳的聲音，并由此引申詞義混水摸魚，放煙霧彈，詐騙等。

racket: racket: Racket for playing tennis [16] and racket ‘noise’ [16] are unrelated words. The former was borrowed from French raquette, which originally meant ‘palm of the hand’. This goes back via Italian racchetta to Arabic rāhat, a variant of rāha ‘palm of the hand’. The origins of racket ‘noise’ are not known, although the probability is that it started life as a verbal imitation of an uproar.
racket (n.1): "loud noise," 1560s, perhaps imitative. Klein compares Gaelic racaid "noise." Meaning "dishonest activity" (1785) is perhaps from racquet, via notion of "game," reinforced by rack-rent "extortionate rent" (1590s), from rack (n.1). But it might as well be an extended sense of "loud noise" by way of "noise or disturbance made to distract a pick-pocket's victim."
racket (n.2): "handled paddle or netted bat used in tennis, etc.;" see racquet.

1. Suspicious fans exposed the racket and police arrested a man in Nottingham.: 起了疑心的愛好者揭發(fā)了這一勾當(dāng)，警察在諾丁漢逮捕了一名男子。

2. A furious player kicked his racket into the grandstand.: 一位憤怒的球員將他的球拍踢向了看臺。

3. The racket of drills and electric saws went on past midnight.: 鉆孔機(jī)和電鋸的噪聲過了半夜還繼續(xù)響著。

4. A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.: 走私活動每年都會導(dǎo)致數(shù)千只珍奇鳥類死亡。

5. He makes such a racket I'm afraid he disturbs the neighbours.: 他如此大聲喧鬧，我怕他打擾了鄰居。