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
along-side
amisses
angiocath
anti-boycott
Antitoxin-serum
arborea
artichoke bite
auxiliary pathogenic factor
Ba'labak
barnard's
basic manure?
beam deflecting mirror
bigheadedly
bird-foots
black fallow
calophyllum longifoliums
carnivorous fish
cephalometric index
chatterist
ChB
closeness
coating syrup pastry
contract caterer
control premise
corn smut
cudrania cochinchinensis var. gerontogea kudo et masam
data recording equipment
deppas
draw in bar
dukkha
EE-FORMEN
facies posterior dentium pr?molarium et molarium
forgetful people
form critical
Gamart, C.
gas driving mechanism
genus picuss
genus pisonias
high-ratest
hoogers
HOPLICHTHYIDAE
hpdi
Ibias, R.
idiolectally
indivertibly
infrastructural investment
infringeth
Islamitic
iso-immunization
janitorship
kali meter
kinematic(al) similarity
line object
linked list type
liquefied gas tanker
lommy
management investment company
microfractionated
micropipette
middle priced stock
monday-friday
near field potential
near work
neck or nothing
nonmoralistic
North Pacific Region
nucleon separation energy
Oeste, Can.
palmolive
pictural
pole smoker
prebedtime
premierest
quenfrency
radio on-scene report
rhyphids
Saxapahaw
scrupulously
sedimete
silvertungsten
size distribution
sniffings
social benefit
spiral membranes
station clerk
suffer the asperities of
summarisations
supplement of sailing directions
Swordgrass
Séguéla, Dep.de
test for reinforcing plate
thermostat oven
thirst for
trial move
undersole
ungrabbing
unstiffens
Ventura
verocytotoxic
wallaby acacia
water drive
wheat straw hood