etymology

etymology什么意思,etymology翻译

基本解释

n.: 词源学
网络: 语源学；语源学说；辞源

权威解释

• 词源学:

  the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings

• 词源:

  the origin and history of a particular word

英汉解释

• 词源学;词源

• 词源[语源]学

词性分析

• 复数：etymologies

例句

• 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。

• Although there isn"t authoritative evidence to back this story up the etymology of pretzel tends to support at least part of the story.

  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。