• n. 爆竹，花火；爆炸裝置

來自中古法語peter,爆炸聲，放屁聲，來自拉丁語petere,爆炸，放屁，來自PIE*pezd,放屁，擬聲詞，詞源同fart.

petard

petard: see feisty

petard (n.)

1590s, "small bomb used to blow in doors and breach walls," from French pétard (late 16c.), from Middle French péter "break wind," from Old French pet "a fart," from Latin peditum, noun use of neuter past participle of pedere "to break wind," from PIE root *pezd- "to fart" (see feisty). Surviving in phrase hoist with one's own petard (or some variant) "blown up with one's own bomb," which is ultimately from Shakespeare (1605):

For tis the sport to haue the enginer Hoist with his owne petar ("Hamlet" III.iv.207).

See hoist.

1. It was indeed a clever plan to entrap his opponent, but in the end he was hoist by his own petard.

設(shè)圈套陷害他的對手固然是個(gè)妙計(jì), 可是到頭來卻是作法自斃.

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2. The police hoisted the criminal with his own petard.

警察使罪犯搬起石頭砸自己的腳.

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3. Critics say he is in danger of being hoist with his own petard.

有批評者認(rèn)為他的話無疑是作繭自縛,但不管如何,切爾西是否能有一天超越在全球范圍擁有五千五百萬球迷、年獲得五千萬英鎊收益的曼徹斯特聯(lián)隊(duì)?

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