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
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actinorhodin(e)
adhesion braking
Aster macrophyllus
batkin
beam production
bewailingly
Bihpur
bottom dead point
buchmen
CAGD
cared nothing about
catheran
chanfrin
charging nozzle
Chinese oil of cinnamon
Châtillon-la-Palud
CNSDC
company with
conical-head thermometer
conquestador
cooperative mechanism
copper coil
corticoid
crack hardy
culturally-specific
dayss
discretionary fiscal policy
driveress
elastic recoil
Elodea densa
equvalent lens
ethoxyethane
extempores
feed perpendicular force
flywheel
folliculostatin
frontal crash test
Graeffe's method
grillades
high population
hoop wrench
immediate-return
job lot control
joinder in issue
keratella valga
kinase-dead
kind of allergic to
lashing ring
linkage voltage test
load effect
Mall of America
mathy
mechanical template plot
menial task
mogue
molefi
monstrose
Morada Nova de Minas
Morozkovo
multiple-pin mixer
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near ultraviolet ray
nobblerizes
open steam cure
perhenuall
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Plouescat
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power-compensation differential scanning calorimetry
pre-calculus
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regner
retortment
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sister paper
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thin-walleds
thymus epithelium
tribune-democrat
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under-study plan
unprejudicate
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vegol
water proof
water-holding
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zoogonid