wallet: [19] Etymologically, a wallet may be something ‘rolled’ up. The word originally denoted a ‘traveller’s pack’; its application to a ‘small flat case for money and papers’ arose in 19th-century American English. It was probably borrowed from an Anglo-Norman *walet, which could have been formed from the prehistoric Germanic base *wal- ‘roll’ (source also of English wallow).
wallet (n.)
late 14c., "bag, knapsack," of uncertain origin, probably from an unrecorded Old North French *walet "roll, knapsack," or similar Germanic word in Anglo-French or Old French, from Proto-Germanic *wall- "roll," from PIE *wel- (3) (see volvox). Meaning "flat case for carrying paper money" is first recorded 1834, American English.
双语例句
1. I got out my wallet and began to dole out the money.
我掏出钱包开始发钱。
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2. I felt for my wallet and papers in my inside pocket.
我在里兜里摸钱包和证件。
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3. He took out his fat wallet and peeled off some notes.
他掏出鼓鼓的钱包，抽出几张钞票。
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4. At Brussels airport he fell victim to pickpockets who pinched his wallet.
在布鲁塞尔机场，他被扒手盯上，钱包被偷走了。
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5. The men rifled through his clothing and snatched the wallet.
