2012_05_18 Pip v. 窺視或者啁啾 To peep or chirp.

Word of the Day for Friday, May 18, 2012
pip \pip\, verb:
1. To peep or chirp.
2. (Of a young bird) to break out from the shell.
3. To crack or chip a hole through (the shell), as a young bird.
Stone's watch pipped eight o'clock. He had curly hair the color of motor oil, and pale green eyes.
 -- Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
As Fiona's horn pipped, just beyond the cab's black fender.
 -- William Gibson, Zero History
Pip is a variation on the word peep which arose in the 1600s. It comes from the Lithuanian word pỹpti which was originally imitative of a baby bird.
PIP\ PIP\，動詞：

1。窺視或者啁啾。
2。 （一個年輕的鳥），打破了殼。
3。裂紋或芯片的通孔（殼），作為一個年輕的鳥。

石頭的手錶pipped八點鐘。他捲曲的頭髮顏色，機油和淺綠色的眼睛。
- 喬納森·弗蘭岑，第二十七屆市

pipped由於Fiona的號角，只是超出駕駛室的黑色擋泥板。
- 威廉·吉布森，零的歷史

PIP是一個字窺視在17世紀出現的變化。它來自立陶宛的字pỹpti這是最初的模仿鳥寶寶。

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