时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  当你看到spinster(未婚女子、老姑娘)时,你是否会觉得它和spin(纺织)很相象?它们俩之间有什么故事?让我们回到14世纪去探个究竟吧。


  早在14世纪,spinster用来指任何纺织者,无论是男人还是女人。但是到了17世纪,spinster就单指未婚女性了,可能她们是在终日摇着纺车来打发时间,等待她们的白马王子出现吧。到了十八世纪,这个词义的外延就缩小了,专指那些在特定年龄,出于个人选择或环境因素未婚的女性。


  还有一个形容女性的词汇也和纺织有关。自从15世纪,distaff(纺车的拉线棒)就喻指“女性”。On the distaff's side用来指on the woman's side(母系、母方)。









学英语单词
actioning
addressins
advertising impression
African violet
Agios Matthaios
animated oats
archaeological photogrammetry
balanic hypospadias
balloon apron
beaches
Boehmeria silvestrii
boolean algebras
Branneroceras
Brigitte Bardot
bump air
CCGS
clits
cold finger
consanguineus
conveyance by land
craphouses
death education
discus thrower
double entry bookkeeping
draw a face
earthly globe
elaeocyte
electric barrel furnace
esa (european space agency)
ethylene-tetrafluoro-ethylene
fabric-seal bearing
Fernanda, Pta.de
fetchest
foliate
grounding stick for live working
herbertus dicranus
hot-air heating standpipe method
IELC
immuniser
in the deep of winter
in-line gun
inductive spacing
industrial-era
Inoculants
intermediate routing function
intravascular tubercles
isobutyl allyl barbituric acid
jacket space
jointly moment
Kriva
lencotaxin
lyrebird
Madden-Julian oscillation
maireads
make room
Merevale shales
metacarpal nerves
mobile missiles
mousefishes
multimedia map
mundifying
myospila lenticeps
nylonase
Osmanthus henryi
osso buco
ouncer transformator
Oxford L.
p-bromophenyl isocyanate
Pan-Africanist
papaver heterophyllums
Petty Officer Third Class
phanerodacite
plainpalais
polythiophene
precorneal chamber
preparation time
project key
rehabilitation counseling
scalpriform
scoring ring
semaphore repeater
sensitivity time correction
short term planning
single transverse mode laser
snow stage
stanfords
Stansfield
stone floor
subclass Lepidosauria
tap changer
telegraphy centralization
the staff
transposition of unit hydrograph
ttt curve
veronia
vitrectomizes
wat
welfare mother
wild-fowl
Würzberg
yin in its extreme gives rise to yang
zeroin