etymology
英音[ ˌetɪˈmɒlədʒi ] 美音[ ˌetɪˈmɑːlədʒi ]

词源

常用释义

词性释义

n.

词源,词源学
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With this etymology something sublime is "up to the top of the door. "
有了这个词源,sublime的意思就成了“到达门的顶端”。
The etymology of the word harbinger is tied up in that "forerunner" meaning.
harbinger这个词的来源和“先行者”是联系在一起的。
尽管人们并没有权威的证据来证实这个故事,但至少它还是部分得到了pretzel词源的支持。
This prompted me to look up the etymology of the word swear and I'll get to that in a moment.
这起小事件促使我去查询swear(咒骂)这个词的词根,一会儿就来讨论这个问题。
At first recruits were only military and the main reason the military needed recruits is actually tied up in the word's etymology.
最初,新丁(recruits)只是针对军队而言的,而军队需要新兵的主要原因是与这个词的词源紧密联系在一起的。
The explanation of these two terms in The Great Chinese Dictionary and Chinese Etymology Dictionary needs to be further investigated.
对于这两个词,《汉语大词典》和《辞源》的解释是值得商榷的。
Now that you've read through all of that here's the much simplified etymology of the word simple.
现在你已经读完了,下面说单词simple的更简化的词源。
I'll save the worst till last and before I tell you I'll just touch on the word butter and its etymology.
最刺激的就留到最后说吧。让我先来告诉你“butter”这个词和它的词源。
I'm also really into the fact that the etymology of seersucker came from my own country, India (thank you Wikipedia).
而且我知道,这种泡泡纱的材质最初是在我的家乡印度发现的(谢谢基维百科)。
With an etymology that boils down to "without an owner" one might think such a name would encourage car theft.
由于这个词有“没有主人”的意味,人们可以将这个名字理解为鼓励偷车。
注意,这里所说的逻辑思维与词源是根本不同的两回事。
In this paper is presented a query for this viewpoint, and a new opinion on the etymology of "jian zhu" based upon a Chinese origin.
本文对所谓“建筑”一词是从日语引入现代汉语的说法提出了疑义,并认为:就“建筑”一词的基本内涵而言,其词源在中国。
“季风”是一古老而有争议的名词,许多权威都曾努力探索过。
Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.
词源学只能问,为什么缝纫时使用的一个小杯状装置被称为顶针,但它却是在中指上使用的。
The name "dialogs" has a curious etymology, being one of the oldest terms in Star Wars lore.
“代亚诺加”这个名字的词源很有趣,它是《星球大战》文化中最早的术语之一。
第一部分从词源、历史及建筑起源三个方面对早期清真寺进行了探讨。
Etymology is traditionally used for the study of the origins and history of the form and meaning of words.
词源学研究词的形式和意义的起源及其历史变化。
Though I don't use the word impute too often its etymology is in some ways consistent with the answer to David's question.
尽管我不常使用impute,它的词源在某些方面倒与大卫所提出问题的答案很吻合。
He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.
他显然是错了,但几个世纪后,他通俗易通的词源学仍坚实地盘踞这众人的意识之中。
It isn't just conceptual, the etymology of behave really does point back to the word have.
这不仅仅是概念上的关系,behave的词源确实可以追溯到单词have。
Miniature is one of those strange words that has an etymology that defies logic.
Miniature是那些违背逻辑的奇怪单词之一。
So what does all this have to do with etymology?
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢?
And believe it or not, this has something to do with the etymology of the word clock.
不管信不信,这跟单词钟(clock)的词源有些关系。
尽管OED对goal的词根有一定推测成分,但它就这个词提供的信息肯定比不少其他单词丰富多了。
但韦氏大词典更为奇怪,它将galoshes的词源追溯到一个意为“平圆蛋糕”的法语单词上了。
Though the "soaked bread" etymology appears in a few sources the OED simply says it's from Spanish.
尽管“泡汤面包”的词根在《牛津词典》里出现过几次,但它仅仅写到这个词来自西班牙语。
Reason and rationality can be compared from etymology , academic-history and concept-character.
理性与合理性的关系可以从词源学、概念发展史与概念特征三个角度来探讨。
有一些故事是关于语源学的,关于语言的本质以及那些词语与我们周围的元素的偶然联系。
Both the word continent and incontinent have a similar etymology and share their root with the words contain and continuous.
continent和incontinent两个词有相似的词源,他们的词根还和contain和continuous两个词相同。
Goats and shackles don't play into the etymology of this word at all.
公山羊和束缚跟它的词根一点关系都没有。
1·These roller bags that make it easier to lug your junk around airports are in keeping with etymology stretching back more than 600 years.
这些滚轮包可以让你更方便地在机场拖着你的杂物,它的词源可以追溯到600多年前。
2·So what does all this have to do with etymology?
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢?
3·So the etymology of vichyssoise will come first.
那么先来看一下这个词的词源。
4·The etymology of the word midwife reflects the fact that assisting in bringing a new little person into this world has long been a gender role and almost completely dominated by women.
这个词的词源反映了一个事实,即帮助引导新生命来到这个世上的助产员长期是由一种性别角色担当,而她们几乎完全被女人垄断。
5·So these roller bags that make it easier to lug your junk around airports are in keeping with etymology stretching back more than 600 years.
有了这种装有滚轮的箱包,你在机场就能轻松地拖着大堆杂物四处行走,这种形象也和它600多年前的词源相一致。
1·The poor Amazons had to start mutilating themselves because some big boob thoughtlessly dabbled in the dark art of etymology without the proper equipment.
由于某些笨蛋不加思考、未用合适的工具就涉足词源学的黑暗艺术而导致可怜的亚马逊女战士开始自残身体。
2·He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.
他显然是错了,但几个世纪后,他通俗易通的词源学仍坚实地盘踞这众人的意识之中。
3·Etymology: over England; from one land to another; into Ireland.
词源学:越过英格兰,从一个陆地到另一个陆地,爱尔兰。
4·Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.
词源学只能问,为什么缝纫时使用的一个小杯状装置被称为顶针,但它却是在中指上使用的。
5·The history and evolution of Chinese characters is such a messy accretion of historical sediment and false cognates that even scholars of Chinese take its etymology with a grain of salt.
中国汉字的历史和变革掺杂了太多历史的沉淀和似是而非的同源词汇,就算是中国的学者对本国的词源学研究也还是有所保留。
1·How better to check out the etymology of the word than to ask its creator?
还有什么比询问其创造者来查询一个单词语源更好的方法吗?
2·You might think that being subtly foolish is an oxymoron in itself, yet this definition goes a long way to uncover the etymology of oxymoron.
也许你觉得“敏锐的愚蠢”本身就是一种矛盾修饰法,不过这个定义对于发现oxymoron的语源大有帮助。
3·As soon as I began looking into the etymology of stutter I bumped up against its synonym stammer.
正当我开始研究Stutter的语源时,我突然碰到了它的同义词stammer。
4·Theodicy is the term coined by the eighteenth-century philosopher Leibniz, and he applied this term theodicy to just that kind of philosophical sentiment that's implied by its etymology.
斯奥迪斯是由18世纪哲学家莱布尼兹创造的,他用斯奥迪斯这个词指代,它的语源表达的哲学思想。
5·The hippies etymology is contentious.
关于嬉皮士的语源是有争议的。
1·Some of it is about etymology, about the nature of words and their casual links with the elements around us.
有一些故事是关于语源学的,关于语言的本质以及那些词语与我们周围的元素的偶然联系。
2·It turns out that entire etymology research departments with vast databases at world leading universities don't really have much idea either so I'm in good company.
结果,那些世界领先大学里拥有海量数据库的语源学研究机构也说不出个所以然,真是吾道不孤啊。
3·Bryson was indeed wrong, but it turns out the real etymology is even less plausible.
Bryson的确是错了,然而该词背后真正的语源学背景似乎更不可信。
4·Butterflies are usually objects of delight but the proposed etymology for the name comes in various flavors of whatever the opposite of delight is.
蝴蝶常常被看做快乐的象征。可语源学考察的结果全是快乐的反义词。
5·Ci Quan took the Western grammar thought as the instruction, has made the careful classification from the etymology Angle to the function word.
《词诠》以西方语法学思想为指导,从语源学角度对虚词作了细致分类。
同根词 (词根etymology)
etymological adj 词源的;词源学的
etymologist n 词源(语源)学家
etymologize vi 研究语源
etymologize vt 探溯语源;追溯语源