cord
音标：
英音/ kɔːd / 美音/ kɔːrd /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
She was 17 when she dived from an offshore raft into the Chesapeake Bay and hit something that caused her neck to snap and sever her spinal cord.
17 岁时，她从近海木筏跳入切萨皮克湾，撞到了什么东西，导致她的脖子折断并切断了脊髓。
—Washington Times
Mr Cole, now 30, was left with a broken neck and damage to his spinal cord, which caused brain damage.
现年 30 岁的科尔先生颈部骨折，脊髓受损，导致脑损伤。
—BBC
The baby emerged with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, but Sara managed to remove it and delivered the little girl safely.
婴儿出生时，脐带缠绕在她的脖子上，但萨拉设法将其取出并安全地分娩了小女孩。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
a line made of twisted fibers or threads
粗线，细绳；电线；灯芯绒裤子；索状结构；考得（木材单位）
同义词：
electric cord,corduroy
短释义：
Clothing can be decorated with pieces of cord or feature a cord tied like a belt around the waist. Another kind of cord is the electrical kind, which is usually made of plastic. Firewood is measured in units that are also called cords, each one about 128 cubic feet. This type of cord got its name in the 17th century from the way the wood was measured: by tying a length of cord around it.
绳索是由绞合材料制成的细绳。您可以用绳子系住包裹，或者在脖子上挂一根挂有银色饰物的黑色绳子。
长释义：
Clothing can be decorated with pieces of cord or feature a cord tied like a belt around the waist. Another kind of cord is the electrical kind, which is usually made of plastic. Firewood is measured in units that are also called cords, each one about 128 cubic feet. This type of cord got its name in the 17th century from the way the wood was measured: by tying a length of cord around it.
衣服可以用绳子装饰，或者用绳子像腰带一样系在腰上。另一种电线是电气电线，通常由塑料制成。木柴以也称为绳索的单位进行测量，每单位约 128 立方英尺。这种绳索因 17 世纪测量木材的方式而得名：将一段绳索绑在木材上。
文学例句：
Reading glasses hung around her neck on a brightly colored, woven cord, the kind from a global imports shop.
老花镜用一条颜色鲜艳的编织绳挂在她的脖子上，这种绳子来自一家全球进口商店。
—The Line Tender by Kate Allen
With a collective ruffle of fabric, the twenty-eight Witchlings pulled out their crystal amulets, which hung from black cords around their necks, and held them in front of their faces.
随着织物集体皱起，二十八名巫灵拿出了他们的水晶护身符，这些护身符用黑绳挂在他们的脖子上，并将它们举在他们的面前。
—Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega
She yanked at her gift like a cord and demanded it obey.
她像绳子一样猛拉礼物，要求它服从。
—The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton
词源：
cord (n.)c. 1300, corde, “a string or small rope composed of several strands twisted or woven together; bowstring, hangman’s rope,” from Old French corde “rope, string, twist, cord,” from Latin chorda “string of a musical instrument, cat-gut,” from Greek khorde “string, catgut, chord, cord,” from PIE root *ghere- “intestine.”
Also from c. 1300 as “string of a musical instrument.” From c. 1400 as “a tendon or muscle.” Figurative sense of “anything which binds or restrains” is from late 14c. Meaning “raised, cord-like rib on the surface of cloth” is from 1776. As a measure of wood of 128 cubic feet (eight feet long, four feet high and wide) first recorded 1610s, so called because it was measured with a cord of rope.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
绳索 (n.)c. 1300，corde，“由几股绞合或编织在一起的绳子或小绳子；弓弦，刽子手的绳子”，来自古法语corde“绳子，绳子，绞线，绳子”，来自拉丁语chorda“乐器的弦，猫” -gut，”源自希腊语 khorde“弦、肠线、弦、绳索”，源自 PIE 词根 *ghere-“肠”。也来自c。 1300 为“乐器的弦”。来自c。 1400 作为“肌腱或肌肉”。 “任何束缚或限制的事物”的比喻意义来自 14 世纪末。意思是“布表面上凸起的绳状肋骨”，源自 1776 年。作为 128 立方英尺（长 8 英尺，高 4 英尺，宽 4 英尺）的木材尺寸，首次记录于 1610 年代，之所以如此命名，是因为它是用绳索。相关条目及更多
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