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 heavy crop
Achaemenes
Actinidia rufa
amino baking putty
angels
anhydrite
archipelagic baseline
arteriae tympanica posterior
association key
at symbols
balanced neighborhood
bar-lamb
bias current
bixylidene
blakiston's line
blanker
boogins
breakfastless
bump my gums
burgio
cardiac effusion
carding beater
carpellodic
cell box
Chineasy
claim notices
commutation of pension
compatible state
CPZ
creamy-colored
cubical material
data list structure
depositional sequecne
depreciate
Diner's Card
dot matrix method
early and late
electric reservoir analyzer
elevation side
embossing
extender board
fatihan, fatiha
find quarrel in a straw
food-borne epidemic
forestry education
friction and wear
full infinitives
glassy micro phase
hardwire logic
hdo
holla back
hydrodynamic derivatives
ilo (injection-locked oscillator)
interchangeable nozzle
inverted diameter ratio
ion cyclotron drift instability
Islamic calendar month
isocyano-group
khafji
Knaresborough
levelling increment
lippin
madanes
magnification ratio
marnik
metal lagging
microinstability
midlantic
mt. ararats
multi-target tracking (mtt)
multitrack railways
Myxogasteres
networth
Newton Aycliffe
occipital sulcus
ordnance switch
philosophical jurisprudence
piricularin
pot marjoram
poulson arc
public code
quarter session courts
sag of the span
semblante
signatron
single entry system
skowhegan
sleeve-type reference electrode
slouse
space charge cloud
speaker-reversal switch
ST_doing-and-achieving_acting-and-acts
Steller's sea cow
stream degassing
supplementarity
surpass oneself
taking all in all
to have done
tuned dipole
uncinulopsis shiraiana(p.henn)hara
unimplementability
uroptychus orientalis