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
-duct
2DE
acaryotic(anucleated)
accompanying infection
Adasone
adjustment of flows of saving and investment
anaphylactoid shock
annointing
approaching target
balsamic acid
batblined
be difficult of
bentone lubricant
Bergeron's disease hysterical chorea
Biloli
biological decay constant
Blueford
buffer depletion
butyl chloral
cachous
chromomycin
classical orthogonal signal
cobaltous
cold reduction mill
continental edge
control file
conveyance loss
cowlligth
critique
crystal vitric tuff
cycle analysis
deburr or coin
discordful
double tube plate condenser
drift effect
ductus arterious (botalli)
egg-and-anchor
elbow out
electrostatic flux density
enchair
epicamphor
ethyl halide
filtered particle method
fluticasones
fluvial tide
Friction Clutches
friction drop
fuel binder
gas water boiler
glancing boom
has no further use for
health screening
hegman gauge
horse-ranch
index pk.
integrated manufacturing software system
interior planet
intermediate survey
khallad
Lanusa
lightup
link joint
longley
magnetization cycle
make one boot serve for either leg
melodic interval
menin
metachroic
multi-band remote sensing
multiple-loop feedback amplifier
NNSS
Nyctibiidae
oil throttle positioner
optimisation
ordinary flash
orthodiagrap
petroleum oil flux
planning ahead
polyhexamethylene adipamide
prefer a charge against some
primary triad
property held for sale to customers
radial boundary value
rami mylohyoideus
raykovicz
rrtc
semi-automatic test
Sint Pancras
spiritus camphorae
stand-up comedy
sweep tube
swell with
switch valve
theof
ti t'an
topminnow
tracking processor
Trichosanthes smilacifolia
truncated cube
undervoltage sensor
wicketkeeper
Wiechert