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
alexipharmic
Amblytropis
ampullinid
amygdalate
anesthetics
ar ruwaydah
asymmetrical modulation
attendeth
autumn statoblast
be snowed off
binary-only
Boones Mill
Bāghain
capsaicin
caudal pharyngeai complex
cetraria saepincola (ehrh.) ach.
chatter of switch
coding assembly
cornus canadenses
cross-polarized voltage
dammed
data acquisition and processing center
defect index
dequeuer
Dipteris
dynamic circuit
EATPHHSA
ecological speciation
efi
electrostatic type tea stalk-sorting machine
Elmsta
end-spigot
excessive regulation
extension cultivation
f and a
fish-food
Fulgoroidea
genu of corpus callosum
getachew
gliptide
glycoconjugate
head for boring bar
hexabromoethane
imbiber
inoptable
inshorest
intellimouse
intrasession
itamycin
kiloohm
lord of admiralty
lossmakings
martyrological
mass-type foundation
monophosphoinositide
new politics
Noregan
Northern Ireland Assembly
nyctophilia
Nymphaea alba
omotoso
one-minute process
Opegrapha
oscillatory laser behavior
ottoman rib
parallelepiped reactor
plasminogen determination
port interface card
potamarcha congener congener
pour gasoline on the fire
pre-expanded bead
products blending
read/write check indicator
reverse-current braking
roof crack
rotating drum method
samink
satellite probe
sequence file
ski-shop
sorbic alcohol
sowing seed
static semantic analysis
superfemale(bridges 1914)
surgeon dentist
syndrome of teeth dryness due to yin deficiency
Tabrinkout
tamboured
tanna sayurie
tapisers
the pink
three level maser
to surround
top-handle
transitory aspect
unconcealed
underdowns
UNMIH
unstable gene
vocal bands
wire, copper