| 单词 | nuke |
| 释义 | ▪ I. † nuke, n.1 Obs.
Also 6 newke.
[var. of nuche and nuque.]
1. The spinal cord.
1541Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. D iv b, Holes..by the whiche descendeth the nuke of the brayne..tyll vnto the ende of the backe. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. i. i. 2 The Nuke which is the mary of the backe bone..is as it were a streame descendynge from the said partie. 1547Boorde Brev. Health ccclxvii. 118 The synewes doth procede from the newke which is the mary of the backe.
2. The nape of the neck.
1562W. Bullein Bulwarke, Dial. Sorenes & Chir. 22 b, Cold is an enemie to the..braine, and nuke of the necke. 1634T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. iii. i. (1678) 55 The back⁓part of the neck called..the nuke or nape. 1676Wiseman Surg. Treat. iv. iv. 282 Those on the left side were then swelled from the Nuke down that side of the Neck.
So † nuke-bone. Obs. rare—0.
1611Cotgr., Os basilaire, the Nape, or Nuke-bone.
▪ II. nuke, n.2 slang (chiefly U.S.).
(njuːk, U.S. nuːk)
Also (U.S.) nook.
Abbrev. of ‘nuclear bomb, weapon,’ etc.
1959N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Feb. 46/3 Soon there may be 5-inch nuclear shells and portable Davy Crockett ‘nukes’ for the infantryman. 1960Time 4 July 52/1 But the nuclear submarines—called ‘nukes’—can cruise underwater for weeks at top speed. 1964Daily Mirror 24 Aug. 4/5 The generals should be allowed to decide whether to use tactical nuclear weapons, or as the current ugly phrase has it: ‘Where and when to put in the nooks.’ 1967Word Study Oct. 8/1, I heard a grim, affectionate diminutive: ‘nook’ (nük). ‘If the bird is carrying nooks.’ 1969Life 29 Sept. 23/2 Once communities vied for nuclear power plants (‘nukes’) as passports to prosperity. 1971J. Ball First Team (1972) xv. 224 ‘What is nukes?’ the man asked. ‘Nuclear specialists; no one else can handle this stuff.’ 1973Publishers' Weekly 14 May 44/1 They hijack a liner at sea and sink it with a baby nuke... He is given the job of detonating the big nuke.
Hence as v. trans., to use nuclear weapons against; ˈnuking vbl. n.
1967Look 11 July 25, I remember in Saigon how disturbed General Westmoreland was after talking to a group of American editors..who told him they favored ‘nuking’ (A-bombing) China. 1970New Yorker 4 July 52 We have to get ready to nuke 'em to kingdom come. 1972S. China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 29 Sept. 2/3 Dr. Strangelove nuked the Russians on his own authority. 1972Japan Times Weekly 23 Dec. 4/2, I asked how he could be sure that the Soviet Union would nuke us if we nuked China. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 13 Apr. 40/1 ‘Nuked’, for those unfamiliar with modern war-parlance, means to let off a nuclear bomb. |
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