- a small barrel-shaped cheese, especially cheddar筒形小奶酪(尤指切达干酪)。
词源
late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea 'sheaf of a pulley'. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent. and was originally dialect.
no obj.
- submit or behave obsequiously屈从, 讨好:
she despised her husband, who truckled to her.
她看不起事事屈从于她的丈夫。
派生词
truckler
noun词源
mid 17th cent.: figuratively, from TRUCKLE BED; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed.