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
accuracy for vertical control
achloroblepsia
Alasulf
alkaline-aggregate reaction
anti-noise
assault-at-arms
axial wheel
axiomatic quantum theory
azima
bell-glass
bleached-white
block sandstone
brailled
cable placing
cable record
carnography
charge scrap
clerical section
collata
communications port
compass case
couvercle
dactylium alpiniae
deck watertight type
deepies
dibutyl sulfite
drowsihead
dust-out
egg pocket
embarker
fast-back parser
flicker fixer
Fuller Island
gaijin-san
genus giardias
goldstripe darters
high performance virtual machine system
highly urbanphil plant
Homalium stenophyllum
hupehenirine
hyaenas
hyposcope
Irishman
kalamycin
Khilim
lime blue
maisonneuve
metal grid floor
metrechoscopy
MPS
MTTC
multiple control unit computer
multiple-unit steerable antenna
nevas
nga
no dumping shoot
norsymoatol
odland
open hearth furnace steelmaking
parallel-structured computer
parameter performance
photoelectric organ
polarized neutron
polyphosphoric acids
procedural instruction
pseudoallergy
pseudosasa japonica(s. et z.)makino
pseudotsuga macrocarpas
rauc
reimportunate
sadue
Sapangbato
seakeeping quality
seventytwo
skeletal electron theory
soldier's heart
source of audit evidence
spinifexes
stereological method
stricklands
superior government
symplex
testing tool for blowout preventer
tiny capacitance probe
tool head feed screw
tricks of the trade
true to type
unbalances
unified design methodology
unserviceable
upflinging
ust-kamenogorsk (?skemen)
watermaker
weld test channel
well-ringed
wire-grid lens antenna
XLANG
y?eh pu
yellow-covered
Yiddishize
Zakhary