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
adjacent audio channel
axis of curvature
basic balance
be for sale
berlin syndrome
blended yarn
bushelfuls
cardiaca
Chinese eggs
closed-class words
common of pasture
communalizing
consistence
continental
cosmic-ray lifetime
curryings
cyclic diolefine
deep fault
derrick mast
died out
differentially rectified photograph
dimpled
dummy exogenous variable
Dumontiaceae
eizo
emergency temporary construction
endulce
equipartition theorem
ethnic difference
eurypygid
factor X deficiency
familial cardiac conduction disturbance
family Calostomataceae
gallium arsenide/aluminum gallium arsenide (gaas/algaas)
give oneself away
Groote, Gerhard
Grästorp
hand-writing
handing hoisting device working ladder
hang over someone's head
hard-boiled eggs
heat injection noise
hernial reposition
homentropic
import quota
in-house use study
indirect measurement
ineloquent
interest and penalties on taxes
jackshaft housing
kiahs
kozarek
lagrangian differential operator
lasting cementing machine
Lincolnesque
liturgicians
magnetic cluth
malic acid diamide
Marchen
martin van burens
mashing machine
multi-ethnic
mychele
natural pollutant
newshour
noise radar fuze
notiphila (notiphila) latigenis
oblique pit
operate condition
Owanka
penteremes
pepperidges
personnel requisition
pingy
Poa hissarica
post-Kantian
proprioceptive impulses
pyracin
Ramik
re-belove
reduction condition
reforestation
satellite fix GPS fix
separation from service
st pancras
stenosis of lacrimal canaliculus
stream limiter
taradiddle
tautomenial
testicular feminisation syndrome
thirty-day visible supply
three-step
time-of-flight arrangement
tomog
uncommon metal
undiffaded
water-based paint
wet-bulb thermometer
worryin
Zagórz
zoothera dauma hancii
zores