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
a-j
across the line starting
Akkol', Ozero
alatum
alwan
Amphistoma hominis
Amplexicarinia
aquarelles
auxiliary feedwater pump system
awakened
be boed
bearn
blastodermic
carotid hemostasis clamps
Catroniazide
Chadwick, Henry
Chemosil
chondrocalcin
civil fines
compiler processing assignment instruction
cross key 1
cubage of excavation
dhar tichit
Dimelor
diphenylamine sulfonic acid
dipsy-doodle
direct-indirect plate making system
disleaves
district aditor
doughfacism
earth-moon dynamics
echinococciasis
electrorotation
electrostatic electron lens
epileptiform
Ernest II
ethylal
Eyasi, L.
feedover processor
feel badly about
following spot light
frizzante
gastric disease
genus Coccothraustes
Glutathin
gravity pipeline
Hamberge
high band
hogsheads
icosidodecadodecahedrons
intracellular freezing
isarithm
Iskitimskiy Rayon
isopentenyladenine
Kibungan
laidbacks
lassu
linear regression technique
low-land river
Mahamat
mechanical misalignment
Micoclorina
micropaleontologists
microwave band-pass filter
monogamy
Nonionacea
nose-smart
NUI
Open bracket
optimization engineering
optimum balance ratio
orlies
pentafluorides
planting out
pneumatic jack
positive crankcase ventilation system
ramp weignt
random sampling procedure
reductive methylation
Rocky Mountain bee plant
Salpingo-Oophororrhaphy
seepage losses
semi-Gothic arch
semiannual installments
semibridging carbonyl
Shar Pei
sharedwhiteboard
sleasy
sourdine
sournesses
Steksovo
straight-gauge
streptavidin
streptopelias
structural spalling
telephone amplifier
thrombin-antithrombin
top loading balance
triangular phase diagram
trousseau
unpassableness
with someone at Jericho