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
abbaties
Actinidia fulvicoma
air hostesses
anterior labial arteries of vulva
apple of one's eye
auto-orientation
bendixson criteria
bioactive substance
brake control machanism
Burrundie
butko
capitals of finland
chromatomyia horticola
coevalness
congestion termination
contempts of congress
contermination
corrective discipline
covered conduit
curvature of surface
developmental baseline
dial backup
dick-cheese
dideoxyadenosine
ecojustice
electronic probing
engine-mallet
fall for someone's bluff
falsetto
faraday's ice-pail experiment
flame radiation
freaking you out
gamification
garden pepper cresses
get less than the capital invested
gleyer
grain refinement
grossnesses
Hauksstadhaheidhi
heliothis moths
high tension line
Hmas
Homofort
image transfer
instantaneous capacity
Jenney, William Le Baron
Kerr electro-optic effect
Kouma
laboratorian
Las Lavaderos
laser wind tunnel
layer of cutting
loop compilation
Luna Park
malurit
manzokus
market hours
mean monthly-highest water level
mentoposterior position
metallic flavo(u)r
momentary interests of the day
multiple instruction-multiple data stream processor
musculi chondroglossus
MYMD
naismiths
news photograph
non integer
nonexplanation
off-normal position
old shoreline
on base
outreign
p-phenetidine
park administration
Piralgo
piratism
porous coke
professional legal consciousness
reasoning network
Reid mechanism
repacketization
repetitious excitation
Romanche Fracture Zone
scaturient
secondary piston
self-tender
Shade-screen
side formula
simple graph
solar haloes
Tiodenol
tooth height
top and bottom chord of the roof truss
true boiling-point
underlooker
unistratal community
upsize
visible pit of track
volume formatting program
well-closed container
work performed against regulation
Yilanlι