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
a converter
A549
Abberley
acetoarsenite
agranular endoplasmic reticulum
annihilability
annual power generation
appeal jury
atheromata
atoll lake
attachedness
Auckley
Ayr
bill of lading
binnion
Catgut.
chili sauces
communications and transport
composition of feed
correction for mean
cytoprotectant
dangerous rock
datchet
deer-skins
electric cautery set
electric osmose
electronic calculating
enciphered facsimile communication
erosion gap
extratropical belt
feno
Fomor
fustiest
genericising
giudice
Glanville fritillary
glass-crabs
goldsmith principle
hoa
IDFT (inverse discrete Fourier transform)
iliotibial band syndrome
illinoian glacial period
ImageWriter
infra red dryer
Komsomol's'k
koumansetta hectori
Labuhanbatu
lack the perspective
Lecanorchis nigricans
machine function
maillart
management and education
marine oil
marquesite
measuring pressure basis
minimum distance code
mitaki
moving coil earphone
Mura (Mur)
myth-kitty
needle washer
non-eddying flow
out of consideration
paccan
partial contract
peachful
photomicroscopically
pitch pot
plasma core
program recording control instrument
progressive ascending hemiplegia
rattlesnake weeds
ready made time-sharing
reproductive toxicity study
reserve strength
resources maximum
rightways
roast-and-reaction process
Scolopendridae
selkowitz
senior notes
single plan of standard cost
smallest rooms
steam calorifier
Stokes'disease
sugar snap
supergene water
tenian
thyreoitis
trans-sexualism
two way fuse socket
unseasonable bolting
untappable
Uong Bi
usful
vegetative mutant
Web radio
weightless flight
William Henry Hoover
work incentive credit
Yearby