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
a chick magnet
acquittal in fact
Adenylylcyclase
admoveantur
aha moment
alger alloy
alkaline pulping
all-embracing agreement
amplitude-modulated wave
anguality
anthologising
Borlez
Boro R.
brices
busbar sectionalizing switch
chromous cyanide
citative
cocoonish
confounder
creamlet
Dalbergieae
drying cupboard
Dyngjufjöll
Edwardson Sd.
efferent block
equivalent uniform structures
ethylene cyanide
femtocoulombs
finkin'
gasdynamic
gear reduction
general news column
Gentiana simulatrix
get a pash on
gravity gradient
haldol (haloperidol)
heminotum
hexadecatetraene
hexose monophosphate shunt
homodromy
hot pressed ceramics
hydrothermal geothermal field
in conformity with the specification in the contract
incognisance
isolations
Ituri Forest
joculator (england)
knock the daylights out of
LDDCC
linkup load trolley
lithates
loosey goosey
low-compaction applicator
man-mountain
manhole cover chain
manipulation detection
manual control open loop
mathematics and statistics
merged
microtubule fasolculus
Moniteau County
neo-
noshery
option interface
outporter
overtrips
pediculosis inguinalis
plasticized
polar radius
possession-trance
practical infrared optics
prourokinase(pro-UK)
public addressor
Py. R.
re-commence
Rohuküla
Roxanol
Salmonella havana
Second International, the
seeded slope
Selas furnace
sensory analysis
service credit
shomron
site weld
skip-keying
snaffles
solid wheel
somatic condition
stand by one's gun
statistical macroeconometric model
stream biota
strongylura leiura
synodical year
the lion's den
trifluorochloromethane
turbine self-regulation factor
universal motor
us um
visibility reduction
wastelessness
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