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”。









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1-Testolactone
achillo-
acocanthera venenatas
acute transformation of chronic myelocytic leukemia
agglomerate table
alternate exception action
alternative journalism
annular impactor
approach method
be riddled with
beechwood sugar
Beer-thirty
bello
bivalent atom
boreout
botany
bullhead rails
business groups
button-spot weld
Cartagena Agreement
cdv(cell delay variation)
chain fission
Charlie-Gibbs fracture zone
chefoo
cheirinine
close link chain
constant reaction design
continuous mill
cordite
crop physiology
cut-off radiation
De Meritens alternator
dobee
dynamic differential calorimetry
electrodynamometer type impedance meter
electrostatic discharge
eremophilas
Exton's quantitative reagent
faustoes
flippy disk
floor rug
fluid-intake
friga
glasscutting
grab
hand-held microphone
high - energy particle
high curie point alloy
high pressure steam pipe
humic andosols
Huntsman, Benjamin
I (input)
language learner
leading brush edge
lemon yellows
magnoliaceous
Maputo, Prov.de
MARSOF
mccay
middlebox
mirror canon
mounded
multicellar
Niimi
normal arterial pressure
on-plane
oneparameter
other mechanism in common use
ozonizations
paragraph unit
photographic detection
pliofilm
porcupine fishes
potty-train
pulsed neutron die-away method
punched tape code
pyroscope
rabbling door
raft-section driving
ReLC
ripple through carry unit
roll motor
sea surface bubble layer
simple volume
simpson mill
SPGR
spinal stimulant
stirruppiece
straw berry tomato
supermoto
supply mother seed
tenter pin
test functions
tetradecyl acetate
to go astray
total system tape
ucelli
UKPIA
waymaker
whim-wham
zorbs