volley

英 ['vɒlɪ] 美['vɑli]

CET6+GRE低频词扩展词汇

复数: volleys;第三人称单数: volleys;过去式: volleyed;过去分词: volleyed;现在分词: volleying;

1. volleyball => volley.

volley 齐投，齐发

来自拉丁语volare,飞，词源同volatile.比喻子弹发射，齐投，齐发。

volley: volley: [16] A volley is etymologically a ‘flight’ of something, such as missiles. The word comes via Old French volee from Vulgar Latin *volāta ‘flight’, which was a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin volāre ‘fly’ (source also of English volatile [17]). The origins of this are not certain, although it may be distantly related to Sanskrit garutmant- ‘bird’. The use of volley as a sporting term for a ‘shot hit before the ball bounces’ dates from the 19th century.
=> volatile
volley (n.): 1570s, "discharge of a number of guns at once," from Middle French volee "flight" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *volta, fem. noun from Latin volatum, past participle of volare "to fly" (see volant). Sporting sense of "a return of the ball before it hits the ground" (originally in tennis) is from 1851, from notion of hitting the ball in flight.
volley (v.): 1590s, "discharge in a volley," from volley (n.). Sporting sense (originally in tennis) of "to return the ball before it has hit the ground" is from 1819. Related: Volleyed; volleying.

2. Three mounted officers rode into the field after the volley.: 枪炮一起开火后，3名军官骑着马冲进战场。