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
Abihud
accustomed to
acetylene coupling
Acreuna
alpinum
angry dragon
annual report on exchang restrictions
binding sites
Biot-Savart's law
blue verdigris
bots
British-American schools
callilepis
clew up
closed cycle
cogwheel pump
cold settling process
community interest company
contact details
coromandel ebony
creeping bent grass
curium compound
diachylum
differential pulse voltammetry
doyra
dubitation
employee involvement
errantries
eurotophobia
extruder head
focal length setting
fracturing sand pump
freeping
freight and cartage
Gelidocalamus rutilans
guaiacol carbonate kefir
Gynura bicolor
hahnemann
halistas
Heritage Range
homefries
Hope lapin
hybrid circuit
infra red spectroscopy
inquiry list
invisible rails
judder bar
kagouls
laminar jet absorber
lattice pattern
lead screen
levelling-up
livelihead
maximum dividing depth
modified-acrylic adhesive
motility
motor valve
neropathy
nonatopic
normal productive capacity
notaires
Ohanabe-yama
orbital indices
Other All Dangerous Accident
overgazing
paleocollapses
pancreatic lobule
plant sth out
point probe-static characteristic method
point rainfall
POLP
radiato-
reprehensions
Rosa henryi
ruthenate
salt books
Sefīd Sagak
shut the door
skate over thin ice
skatecore
spiral curved tooth
stop nut
straight piece work
SUAC
sun-path diagram
super microcomputer
temporary table
Theotokos
thinkpad
Thāngaon
total conductance
tythimal
ultimation
up to date
vascular occlusion
vauclusian
viscosity indicator
wakeful
Warsaw pact
well-accustomed
word counts
xenias