时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  尽管今天我们用loom来表示“织布机”,但hairloom和这个关系并不大。Heirloom是一个复合词,由heir和loom两部分组成。


  Heirloom里的heir表示“继承人,后嗣”,这是我们耳熟能详的。后来heir的意义有所扩大,表示“(职位)接任者,后继者,后续的事物”,例如:Thomas Kinkade is heir to the schlock art market once dominated by Walter Keane's wide-eyed children.


  Heirloom里的loom来自中世纪古英语lome,最初表示“任何一种工具”,直到15世纪初才专指“纺织工具,织布机”。


  Heirloom最早也出现在15世纪初期,表示祖先遗留下来的任何一种工具或物品。到了17世纪,它才有了今天的含义,表示“祖传遗物,传家宝”。









学英语单词
ABDs
accessible promoter
Aconitum tangense
advance economy
ale posts
Alice Downs
assedate
Aupaluk
back stop motion
beam(-pumping) unit
bequarrel
bidaily
bledel
blue northers
Bogie-truck
bunt gasket
burn someone in effigy
buzick
Caripare
cathode tube
center-driven antenna
chlorbenzuron
chosisme
chromium oxide scale
circumvall
Cumberland R.
database initialize
deca-joules
dice with death
direct fired drier
disposall
economic reconstruction and readjustment
eight-floor
electron diffusion constant
electron transfer couplet
erbolino
etoposide(vp-16)
Fittleton
flamper
fluorochloroparaffins
Geoffrey of Monmouth
glaude
glenn
gregus
gripper latch
guaranteed cycle
gudgeon pin hole cap
guei
have oneeye on
Hayasakaia
heartachingly
hinge axis
Hydromanganosite
life cycle hypothesis
light bread
macroassociation
manohars
margin of dumping
marsh border soil
mass absorption effect
massless theories
mirrorsmooth
mitior typhus
mixed leucocyte culture test
mobile communication systems
modulated sound source
monothecous
pajamas
pakracs
paving depth measurement
pedo-stache
physical segregation
pons hepatis
primitives
proper adjective
proportional pressure reducing valve
pseudotrachoma
red-light-camera
resident salesman
Savelli
selecting market targets
shareware
silicone resin finish
sinewer
stacked arry
syndrome of dampness-heat of spleen and stomach
tax apportionment
technical level
thumomancy
trixie
Truchet tiles
truck-trailer log hauling
uncertainty element
upper sector of triangle
Upside risk
vagotonin
waveguide attenuation
Wufeng Formation
yarn defect
zirconate