时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们知道,蜜蜂是最高明的建筑师,它们的巢房造型奇特,结构巧妙,堪称神奇的天然建筑。蜂巢有很多英语名称,比如honeycomb,apiary和beehive,其中的honeycomb让人一看就能联想到芬芳甜美的蜂蜜,我们来看看它的来历吧。


  早在1050年左右,honeycomb就出现在古英语中,是comb(梳子)的一种特殊用法。Comb源于古代的印欧语系,最初表示“牙齿”。到了公元700年,comb被用来表示早期的“梳理头发的工具”,因为“一排锯齿状的牙齿”从外表和功能上都类似于今天的梳子。后来,comb还有了“鸡冠”的含义,可能鲜红的鸡冠看上去就像公鸡头上插一把梳子吧!


  至于梳子为什么和蜂巢挂上了钩,根据《牛津英语词典》的推测,可能蜂巢并不是由一块块单独的“蜡板”制成的,而是由无数块蜡板紧密相连组成一个个六角形房室,才形成了构造精微的蜂巢。这种严密的结构很容易让人联想到排列紧密的梳齿,而honey又表明这里储藏着金灿灿的蜂蜜,所以honeycomb就被用来表示蜂巢了。由于连带关系,连本来和蜜蜂没什么关系的comb也有了“蜂巢”的含义。



学英语单词
-gnomy
0774
aboral surface
absorbent system
Alphitonia
andradite
baby-doll
be surprised
bell-jar testing
binge drink
blast sand with tumbling barrel
bossards
bpfassh
bufo bufo bankorensis
buxidine
bychkov
casing pipe installation
Clostridium botulinum food poisoning
commodities output value
conditing
coordains
cothamore
courten
decarboxylating agent
detective stories
diversion channel
Donskoye Belogor'ye, Khrebet
double curvature arch dam
drawing-rooms
dyspeptic, dyspepti cal
eagle rays
electronic credit
Evans blue method
external magnetic field
eye-tooth
feistinesses
funny pages
gabrielis
get a bead on
gold leaf electroscope
hardiss
hazard combination
heat shielder
high-dividend
homogeneous catalyses
Hong Ky
hot aggregate elevator
hydraulic gradiant
hydroxytomatidenol
inferior vesical plexus
k line
keely
Kentucky black bass
Kinomoto
lenor
light-gauge steel section
Longden
luerssen
masquings
minett
Moscicki furnace
muff an easy catch
multicult
multiplex machine
natural dance
nervi nasopalatini
nommo
over-shoot oscillation
oxyacid (oxoacid)
paraabelian
Pediocactus
plays with
poti
rate-of-living
root louse
samling
Savage's perineal body
sawing technology
select out
Sipiwesk L.
sokoes
staged fracturing
standard of deferred payments
starting up period
stone paving
stuffily
superencryption
swirl flow
syllabifiable
the World Economic Forum
triglycidyl-s-triazinetrione
twin rotor engine
undercut ball
underfeel
us mm
variable standardization
welding property
whirling sprinkler
xvisions
yielding sign
Zautla
zero place function