• n. 樹干；軀干；象鼻；汽車車尾的行李箱
• vt. 把…放入旅行箱內
• adj. 干線的；軀干的；箱子的
• n. (Trunk)人名；(德、匈、西)特倫克

來自拉丁語 truncus,樹干，軀干，來自 truncare,砍倒，截斷，詞源同 trench,truncate.引申詞義 箱子，衣箱，象鼻，汽車后備箱等。

trunk

trunk: [15] Trunk came via Old French tronc from Latin truncus (source also of English trench and truncate). This denoted ‘something with its protruding parts torn off’, hence ‘something regarded separately from its protruding parts’ – the stem of a tree without its branches, or a body without its limbs. The application of the English word to an ‘elephant’s proboscis’, which dates from the 16th century, apparently arose from some confusion with trump ‘trumpet’.
=> trench, truncate

trunk (n.2)

"elephant's snout," 1560s, apparently from trunk (n.1), perhaps from confusion with trump (n.2), short for trumpet.

trunk (n.1)

mid-15c., "box, case," from Old French tronc "alms box in a church," also "trunk of a tree, trunk of the human body, wooden block" (12c.), from Latin truncus "trunk of a tree, trunk of the body," of uncertain origin, perhaps originally "mutilated, cut off." The meaning "box, case" is likely to be from the notion of the body as the "case" of the organs. English acquired the "main stem of a tree" and "torso of the body" senses from Old French in late 15c. The sense of "luggage compartment of a motor vehicle" is from 1930. Railroad trunk line is attested from 1843; telephone version is from 1889.

1. Give me the trunk key and I'll get the spare.

把行李箱的鑰匙給我,我去拿一下備胎.

來自柯林斯例句

2. In the guard's van lay my tin trunk.

我的鐵皮箱放在了衛兵的行李車廂中。

來自柯林斯例句

3. the diameter of a tree trunk

樹干的直徑

來自《權威詞典》

4. I managed to heave the trunk down the stairs.

我用力把箱子弄下樓梯。

來自《權威詞典》

5. The tree trunk was hollow inside.

這樹干里面是空的。

來自《權威詞典》