时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 英国的“繁华商业街”


和朋友闲聊谈学英语的体会,大家竟一致认同,学英语记背怪词、偏词倒不是难事儿,难的是真正掌握那些最为熟悉、词义却一抓一大把的“简单”词。不信?看看sound,good,bad, high 1的诸多含义,这时很少会有人有完全的自信。以high为例,咱们今天谈谈“high street 2”。 想一想北京的王府井,上海的淮海路,想必您也猜出了high street对于英国人的意义。不过,在英国,high street不是单指某一条街,而是泛指“城镇中最繁华的商业区”,是英国人的特有词汇。若要追溯high street(商业大街)的渊源,当然得查究high的诸多含义。 在古英语中,high通常用来形容“高贵的,一流的,高尚的”,如high society(上流社会);high priest(主教,大祭司)。随着时间的推移,high开始用来形容“连结城市、县镇的公用道路”。据记载,早在9世纪,highway(公路)就进入了英语词汇,由此衍生而来的词如:highwayman(拦路的强盗);king's highway(水陆交通干线)。 大约在11世纪,high street开始用来专指“用筑路材料铺成大道”。中世纪,随着小城镇的发展,在这些“铺过的路面”附近开始出现商店、旅店、酒馆,high street逐渐演变为“城镇中繁华的商业区。”

adj.高的,高度的,高级的,高尚的;adv.高高地
  • How high are we flying?我们飞行高度是多少?
  • How high is the mountain?这山有多高?
n.街,街道;行车道
  • We can cross the street.我们可以过马路了。
  • The building faces the street.这座楼面对大街。
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学英语单词
a bout with the enemy
acid rocker
air bottle for life saving
ante-dated bill of lading
antifriction pivot
array control unit
bias-factor
Bryan, Mt.
bupriopion (wellbutrin)
butyl-2-cyanoacrylate
Caesareans
calcium bromide
canned aquatic product in oil
cast discredit upon
cleaning shop
cognizance of the court
communication structure
Congo (Brazzaville)
crossing round haul net
database input language
de hass van alphen oscillation
deformingly
degree fahrenheits
documentary reserve method
ellipsoids of revolution
Enoslav
enter for
enterocoliticas
entoloma lividums
expansion drain trap
Fair Credit Reporting Act
fhv
find another gear
francis turner palgraves
Glaucor
greco-roman architectures
hague conference
heartbalm
heave taut
hemotropic poison
high speed refriger-ated centrifuge
highstand of sealevel
horsetail families
hungry programmers
hyaline globules in kaposi's sarcoma
hybrid accounting method
hyperplane theorem
hypertarachia
infant-school
inferior tabes
inworks
Karnātaka, State of
keratosis palmoplantaris migrans
labor coach
Lamprotornis
left hip
lens crystallina
linear receiver
longitudinal static-stability augmentation system
major neuralgia
marxmen
multi-speed floating action
mutual information
Nautla
no moon
ostgota step
overrecovered
path of eclipse
Pedicularis tsiangii
phell-
philadelphus pekinensis rupr.
potus
proazaphosphatrane
rail lift
resonant interaction
Robin Hood
rotating arm basin
sclerema cutis
semi-subsistence
sizably
Skjoldnæs
spolsky
standard errors
streetcorner
sulfamoyl
talcking
tankometer
target return pricing
Tarnawatka
TGO
the industry
tube detector
two-value
unlimbering
utility dolly
Vena superficialis
vessel not under control
vingt et un
water lute
wedger
whammel
xdsl transceiver unit-remote terminal end