英文词源
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- fence
- fence: [14] Fence is short for defence, and indeed until the 16th century meant ‘defence’ (‘Yet, for [that is, despite] the fence that he could make, she struck it from his hand’, Felon Sowe Rokeby 1500). Of its present-day meanings, ‘enclosing structure’ (originally a ‘defence’ against intruders) and ‘sword-fighting’ (originally the use of a sword for ‘self-defence’, now used only as a verb) developed in the 16th century.
The sense ‘dealer in stolen property’ came along in the 17th century; it arose from the notion that such transactions are carried out under the cover, or ‘defence’, of secrecy. Similarly, fend [13] and fender [15] came by loss of the initial syllable from defend.
=> defence, fend, fender
中文词源
来自法语pelote,球，一群人，来自拉丁语pila,球，词源同pellet,pill,platoon.-on,小词后缀。后用于指自行车赛中的主车群。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：the peloton 词源，the peloton 含义。
