plank

• n. [木] 厚木板；支架；政纲条款
• vt. 在…上铺板；撂下；立刻付款
• n. (Plank)人名；(英、俄、芬、德)普兰克

来自拉丁语planca,宽木板，板条，来自PIE*plak,平的，来自PIE*pele,展开，放平，词源同plan,plain.

plank

plank: [13] The etymological idea underlying plank may be ‘flatness’. It comes via planke, a northern dialect version of Old French planche (source of English planchette [19]), from late Latin planca ‘slab’, a derivative of the adjective plancus ‘flat’. This may have come from the same source as Greek pláx ‘flat surface’, ancestor of English placenta.
=> planchette

plank (n.)

late 13c. (c. 1200 as a surname), from Old North French planke, variant of Old French planche "plank, slab, little wooden bridge" (12c.), from Late Latin planca "broad slab, board," probably from Latin plancus "flat, flat-footed," from PIE *plak- (1) "to be flat" (see placenta). Technically, timber sawed to measure 2 to 6 inches thick, 9 inches or more wide, and 8 feet or more long. Political sense of "item of a party platform" is U.S. coinage from 1848. To walk the plank, supposedly a pirate punishment, is first attested 1789 and most early references are to slave-traders disposing of excess human cargo in crossing the ocean.

1. Frank put the first plank down and nailed it in place.

弗兰克放下第一块厚木板，把它钉在合适的位置上。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Clamp one end of the plank to the edge of the table.

把厚木板的一端用夹具固定在桌子的边上。

来自《权威词典》

3. a plank of wood

一块木板条

来自《权威词典》

4. The plank fell on the ground with a thump.

砰的一声,木板倒下来了.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. The plank was set against the wall.

木板靠着墙壁.

来自《简明英汉词典》