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
a matter of common practice
air circuit breaker
Al Karak
Ald.
all-optical clock recovery
Anglo-English
assembled rotary shaft lip seal
avridine
Banbayan Pt.
bariopyrochlore
batch output functionality
Ben Donich
Bonporti
Boû Lanouar
breathin
brittlish
buckled
calculated carbon aromaticity index
Cauchy type integral
center of inversion
cetoleic acid
collective leadership
coronavirus group i transmissible gastroenteritis virus
country of payment
cross-symmetry condition
deep sea graben
Delegation.
deletion of independent variable
denazifies
dental hygienists
disenrolling
dortoirs
Dostyk
ectophloic
Elcano, Juan Sebastian de
emulating
f(o)etal maceration
feeding incitant
four-words
freakin'
Friedrich August
ghiaour
gin berries
gravity conduit
ground compliance
has been and gone and
hentoffs
hymenophore
Ilex litseifolia
impetigoes
imprint with
inter-european
issuance of a note
knotter
langbehn
line notation
load forecasting
longsleeve
low rank bitumite
mandatory annual report
mid-term prediction
minimize
multiple unit operation
munchings
nonmountaineers
oral presentations
ordinary tide
overlapping data grouping
padovanis
pieho
power-down mode
prereversion
receiving orifice
reedmace
reperfuse
retroactive effect of recognition
runs interference
Samabandu
SB
scientific and technological institution
seat belt anchorage
Sedniv
sequential lobing
shaft arm
Sharīk, Jazīrat
short term autostabilization
sir william hugginss
source of fission neutrons
splitting of heart sounds
sterol phosphatide
stotic pressure moulding machine
take an attitude
the ministry of health
thrombopoietic
total dose
trefoil bandage
tropheus
truth-condition
unholstering
velter
wean ... off
windshear