Picture a male sheep lowering its head and charging: all the weight of the animal behind one hard, straight hit. Everything this word does keeps that picture — the animal, the heavy pole soldiers swung at castle gates, the machine part that pounds, and the verb for driving one thing hard into another.

可以想成:一隻公羊低下頭衝過來,整個身體的重量集中在一記又硬又直的撞擊上。這個字所有的用法都留著這幅畫面:那隻動物本身、士兵拿來撞城門的粗木樁、機器裡負責反覆撞擊的零件,還有「用力撞進去」這個動作。

From the word’s history

Old English ramm 'male sheep' was also used for the battering ram, an impact tool, apparently from the animal's habit of butting with force; the verb (c.1300, 'beat with a heavy implement'; by 1864 'dash violently against') comes from that noun. So the animal, the tool and the action are all one word historically.

古英語 ramm 本來指「公羊」,同一個字也被拿來指撞城門的攻城槌,看來是取自公羊用頭猛頂的習性;動詞(約 1300 年「用重物反覆敲打」,到 1864 年變成「猛力撞上」)就是從這個名詞來的。所以公羊、那根撞槌、和「猛撞」這個動作,在歷史上是同一個字。

Etymonline, entry for ram (etymonline.com/word/ram)

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原始詞典資料31 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Ramname詞源 1

  • 1

    astrologyastronomyhuman-sciencesThe constellation and zodiac sign Aries.

    • Aries, or the Ram governeth the head.
    • Those stars said to belong to the Ram might as well be supposed to belong to the Bull or the Lion.
  • 2

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Derby County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Ramname詞源 2

  • 1

    biblicallifestylereligionThe father of Amminadab and the son of Hezron.

  • 2

    A male given name.

  • 3

    A surname

  • 4

    One of the two progenitors of the second generation of humans in Mandaeism.

Ramnoun詞源 3

  • 1

    A US Korean War anti-tank weapon.

ramnoun詞源 1/ɹæm/

  • 1

    agriculturebiologybusinessA male sheep, typically uncastrated.

  • 2

    A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

    • The solid oak door—he fingered it again—was as though made to resist a ram, the walls built to withstand a siege, and every stone and brick in wall, bench, or floor was as immovable as the face of a rock.
  • 3

    historicalgovernmentmilitarynauticalA warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

    • About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.
  • 4

    historicalgovernmentmilitarynauticalA reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.

  • 5

    A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

  • 6

    An act of ramming.

  • 7

    A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

    • He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."

ramverb詞源 2/ɹæm/

  • 1

    To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

    • The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.
    • A large stone rammed her head
  • 2

    To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

    • To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.
  • 3

    To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.

    • After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
  • 4

    To force, cram or thrust (someone or something) into or through something.

    • I quickly rammed another charge down the barrel and took aim.
    • Again: great to take lessons in ethics from a guy currently trying to ram through a policy of freighting refugees off to cuddly Rwandan president Paul Kagame.
  • 5

    To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

    • They rammed the earth walls to make them more compact
  • 6

    slangTo thrust during sexual intercourse.

    • 1999, Mr.Web, Size Matters review by mr. web review Group: rec.arts.movies.erotica like feel a soft butt against their pelvis or ram a girl really hard with piston-like speed while she begs and screams for more

ramadj詞源 3/ɹæm/

  • 1

    Rancid; offensive in smell or taste.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • random-access memory
  • random-access machine
  • relative atomic mass
  • responsibility assignment matrix
  • reliability availability maintainability
  • radar-absorbent material
  • Royal Academy of Music
  • Rise Above Movement
  • Rāma
  • rambo

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