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
Airtonia
al ballas (el ballas)
angry birds
art.
audimutitas
bauhinia variegatas
ben-is
Beni-Guil
blade offset stress
bottom blow basic converter steel
bristol recorder
bulk oil transportation
cap code
carromatas
cellulose butyl laurate
chloroperoxidases
coherald
compact disc - rewritable
compunications
cresylite
cropsick
cuculiform birds
cuiss
dentinogenesis imperfecta
diaphragma sell?
distinctive
divaricate
economic separation
ectomoph
epicyclic arm
equalizing duties
fenvalerate
fire-tube water-tube boiler
floating-zone refining
for the sake of
Gamow factor
genus sinorniss
gift-wrappeds
glass seed
Glossa, Cape
graphite fill
grouped voltage control
guignardia rhodomyrti
holding cost
Hookeriales
horologion
horse-hitch in tandem
idle coil
immoral
Ionex
junction detectors
Kharaulakh
lambrettas
lighting board operater
low-shaft blast furnace
Maha Sarakham
manteym
meaning fulness
methyl ethyl-aniline
monohydrated
Mswega
nayyar
netmail
NEWPOSITREP
nuff nuff
NWP (normal working pressure)
on over the neck of
outer shell electron
perceptual speed test
PN code
pocket bike
postglacial rebound
private dial port
propolis oral cavity membrance
pseudocoelocyte
put someone down
quarter tone
rahis
red morocco
required cobol
rethoric
Rhone wine
Robert Fulton
rock-shelter
ruddervator
shaft position digitizer
Si detector
standard deviate
supersolenoid
supra.
target threshold speed
telefolmin
television program
test channel
throwt
tow alongside
transit stadia traverse
trapnest
treebanks
uncoated electrode
underinsureds
upogebiids