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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abnormal shrinkage
abrasive paper
accelerated by a spring
Acherontia atropos
amiriyas
auditory organ
auriculoventricular extrasystole
auto-tuner
automatic spark extinguisher
Aytākhli, Kūh-e
basic encoding unit
benzene-resisting hose
beseems
cargo-carryings
cassam
check and approve
Cherni Osǔm
chioro-sulphate polyethylene
Chlor-span
chrionema chlorotaenia
claim for salvage
clayely
clearance post
coherent tissue system
collective labour agreement
contritely
criminal motive
crimsoning
curb erosion
current price series
Curvatura thoracica
cytohistological
draft responsible member
ecoinformatic
F-spot
family amphiumidaes
feigls
Felixlândia
flocculant addition tank
free falling
galvanic contractility
gambrel-roofed
geological technique
gynostemium
harp shackle
height induction
heribert
hermaphrodites
hollenberg
holoxenic
hypothetic(al) computer
ILS server
impetigo herpetifomis
index of wages
inleak
installment contract
inthirsted
isodextran
junior member
kletke
lattice binding
long-term memories
low-registers
marginal capital output ratio
metaphasis
mirandina taiwanensis
modulation.
movest
mysophiles
niggli
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Oxford frame
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pretreatment of the waste
principal directions
public responsibility
purchase with cash
put your mind to something
quocs
report back
RISTA
sijohn
sinnets
Spectograph
Steilrand
tail coat
tear foil
teewits
TMJ-PDS
toolup
ultrasonic velocity meter
unit magnetic flux
Valverde, I.
ventilation-perfusion(quotient)ratio
viscosity-controlling agent
washing powders
white adrenal line
wild cranberries
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