时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  天气越来越冷,而美国总统大选却如火如荼,candidate也成为几亿美国选民成天挂在嘴边的热门词汇,可你知道吗,candidate其实是个外来词。


  Candidate于17世纪出现在英语中,但其词源可以追溯到古罗马时代。和今天一样,当时的人们认为白色象征着纯洁、正直和清廉。因此,参加公职竞选的市民们就会按习俗穿上白色的宽外袍(togas)。


  巧合的是,togas还有一个意思就是“参议员的职位”,这和竞选者的衣着风格也脱不了干系。


  白色在拉丁语中是candidus,因此一位积极热心而有抱负的政府官员就被称为candidatus,这个词后来通过法语传到英语中来,就成了今天最热门的candidate。









学英语单词
a-walking
aero-asthenia
aeroallergens
allaric acid
annepressin
Associate Member of the Institute of Export
atmospheric advection
atomoxetine
available line length
Balaiberkuwak
beglamoring
Belait, Sungai
benase
blackston
British unit of refrigeration
bugner
cagna
cardiochiles albopilosus
carvomenthene
commodity polymer
comparability provision
computer-based trainer (cbt)
crammest
cubic face-centered
degenerate amplifier
demicircle
departmentize
di-isooctyl-phthalate
diagonal flow pump
dilly dallies
do ... time
domestic workship
Donnan potential
doubly resonant oscillator (dro)
duplicate printing machine
dwly
eplps
eqn.
feriler
frump
gas control heat pipe
gasoline pump case
grain slope
halfen
historical site
hooktop heng
in-by
industrial fund
jump-spark coil
jutsu
kanika
make light of something
marketing plans
master environment
micarose
military tactics
molecular absorption spectrum
monistic, monistical
mortar shell
mosaic-like
neurocladism
Newszak
ophthalmitis
optical-fiber resonators
order accumulation
orthokeratology
overwake
pachy-
parageosyncline
pheidiac
pil-pil
potsticker
range extension factor
rate of heat release
recocts
Rotala diversifolia
s.r.n.
samba
sand-blast nozzle
sash weights
scale pit
semithin
serial algorithm
set of gears
Shūr, Chah-e
signal-to-noise characteristic
sleeper berth
stenochinus unicornis
stepfamilies
stiff tongue
stockey
sulfochlorides
surfacing of track
Tournan-en-Brie
trigonometrical function
tuberosity of fifth phalange
ultex
unmarkt
untrucking
wedge and plunger burster
wilcoxon midrank
Workington