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)。


 









学英语单词
advance ignition
Albacort
Allium vineale
Annuity starting date
arajo
arithmetical check
arthropteris obliterata.j.sm.
attractant gland
be fascinated by
be rid of
boundary coding
bubble process
cavernae corporum cavernosorum
coconut fatty acid
compulsory purchase annuity
contact guidance
critical latitude
dairuts
degraded illite
disemboweller
e-lessons
effect of investment
endfield
energy uniformity
euphthiracarids
externally compiled subprogram
eykman test
fast to handle
favorable receptions
felam
female genital mutilation
flood plain discharge
FMFD
footlessness
formal disoretization error
germinal infection
globelet
hand brake release spring
hate fucking
heater discharge pipe
highly twisted rayon
hornless goat
Hron
hypapoplexia
icbm
inhaling
intensity of packing
inversus
isodynamical
ligamentum pubocapsulare
light concealed
make a pig of myself
manganese vanadium tool steel
mariari
Mile's operation
NHCAA
non-erasable storage
non-prosequitur
nutria rat
opinion leaders
organic soil
oven entrance
Pahvant Valley fever
partial vapor pressure
paukert
pawtys
Pentadinium
permeabelized
plotted out
precast wall structure
product patent
pulse jitter
quantitative statistics
ravyn
requirable
robot control
rondeletia loricata
santophen
sceats
signal battalion
single space mean
spatial segregation
sprouted
subaided
swing over
tamari
tamper-evident
time-sharing operating system
trichlorodiphenyls
TrophicardyInosine
unco-operativenesses
unfictionalised
Urazovo
Valderrobres
valva
valve key replacer
vasifactive
verifying statement
vowelizations
walker river
warlpiris
werke