• n. 鐘擺；搖錘；搖擺不定的事態(tài)

來自拉丁語pendulum,懸掛物，來自拉丁語pendere,懸掛，稱量，支付，來自PIE*spend,*spen,拉，伸，詞源同dependent,pension.

pendulum

pendulum: [17] A pendulum is etymologically simply something that ‘hangs’. It is a noun use of the neuter form of the Latin adjective pendulus ‘hanging’ (source of English pendulous [18]). This was a derivative of the verb pendēre ‘hang’, which has contributed a wide range of words to English, among them penchant [17], pendant [14], pendent [15], pending [17], and penthouse, and derived forms such as append [15], appendix [16], depend, impend [16], perpendicular [14], and suspend.
=> append, appendix, depend, impend, penchant, pendant, pendent, penthouse, perpendicular, suspend

pendulum (n.)

1660, from Modern Latin pendulum (1643), noun use of neuter of Latin adjective pendulus "hanging down," from pendere "to hang" (see pendant). The Modern Latin word is perhaps a Latinization of Italian pendolo.

1. In education, the pendulum has swung back to traditional teaching methods.

教育界又恢復(fù)了傳統(tǒng)教學(xué)法。

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

2. The ball which hung the roof is compound pendulum.

懸掛在墻上的鐘來回?cái)[動(dòng).

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Finally, GMTI performance of two typical systems, Cartwheel and Pendulum, is analyzed through computer simulation.

最后, 對CartWheel和Pendulum兩種典型系統(tǒng)構(gòu)形進(jìn)行了GMTI性能仿真分析.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

4. The pendulum has swung back and the American car companies have made dramatic advances in safety.

三十年河?xùn)|，三十年河西，美國汽車公司在安全方面已經(jīng)取得了巨大進(jìn)步。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The familiar pendulum swing was to happen once more, and then stop.

常見的鐘擺來回現(xiàn)象,會(huì)再次發(fā)生, 然后就停止不動(dòng)了.

來自英漢文學(xué)