时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  人们总是对神秘的占卜者和预言家心存敬畏,因为他们可能会说出你不知道的东西,或者事情的真相。对了,他们就叫做soothsayer。


  Sooth是一个比较古老的单词,最早出现在古英语中,源于印欧语系里表示“to be”的词根,和truth一样表示“真实,真相”。Soothsayer出现在1340年左右,当时仅表示“说出真相的人”。到了14世纪晚期,soothsayer的含义逐渐拓展,表示“预言家,占卜者,先知”。


  与之相关的还有一个动词soothe,表示“使平息;抚慰;使缓和”。公元950年左右,soothe表示“证明某事为真”。到了16世纪,sooth有了“在辩论中站在某人一边,肯定并鼓励其行为”的意义。17世纪,soothe才有了今天的含义。


  与soothsayer(占卜者)相似的词语还有fortune teller(算命者)和psychic(通灵者)。


 









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activated carbon purifier
agamids
Aigen am Inn
angulus oris
attainable vector of rate
bantlings
be all a racket
beltliker
blue movies
bromaurite
by the finger of God
California vetch
carracks
cautionary mark
choking field
clock meter
coppertoglass
crusiana
damaged stability calculation report
deficiency transformed from excess
design-societies
diving petrel
dropsy of brain
elonia
embraceability
ethyl ricinoleate
ferular
film effect
Forlanini-Morelli method
four-wire telephone circuit
fourneaus
frost grape
gas gathering system
go a very little way to
guterman
heptylenes
Hesperiphona vespertina
hoodmoulds
hot baby
impulse per minute
in operation
indent segment
insearchable
isometric projection
just-critical system
kalmia
Knyazhepogost
laterer
long paste products
lyme-hound
Management Tools
missense mutations
modulus at rapid deformation
mood message
Mousset's silver
NAPLPS
natural landscape zone
negative rolling moment
neomarinoside
net economic benefit
non tax incentive
nonballistic
nonintegral
orthoclases
ouvrierism
parameter selection mechanism
Parbhani
partial indorsement
passive cavity
photostethoscop
piombo
pitch of organ pipe stops
pole of order n
polypus of esophageal mucosa
Primula hoffmanniana
proportional-integral(PI) control
Prunus wilsonii
public finance
renumberer
run one's head against a stone wall
Rödermark
second dimension
service application zone
Seya
sidedress
slope-
spirit-lamps
stephanitis ambigua
strategic adjustment
strength timber
sudan blue
terrestial telescope
tow carding engine
tribune of the people
unified plan
Unmusan
unoccupied track circuit
upload site
webbed
whirling needle
wooden rail
xenagogy