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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acid engine
aquatic fitness
assault course
batty riders
best order quantity
bluebull
breakthrough innovations
bydgoszczs
cameleon
Cavalla River
cicheling
clinical anthropology
complete state observability
console diisplay adapter
Di-lan
diamond dresser
diverticulum of small intestine
double slice
double track race
dry coke quenching auxiliaries
embarking
Euchinin
film hybrids
flat cell
foresignifies
georges bizets
give sb. the wall
gonadorelin
hackle guide
Hadean
haiducu
haystack hill
hexacosenediacid
hippopotamid
hyalopsora polypodii
hypoxanthines
illegitimacies
imagination images
inaccessible pore
information generation
INTACS
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ionizing radiation
iridicolorous
isogeometric
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Ledran's suture
logarithmically normal distribution
Lugau
make no disguise of
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matrikins
military tenure
mixed-flow impeller
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multiprocessor model
narceol
nightcare
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normalization of production
ormsbee
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program interrupt condition
property under construction
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turkeytrot
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