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
Actinaraea
air fight
alcohol duty
amblyantha
amelogenesia
archtops
atmosphere temperature transducer
average plate height
Baillarger's striations
bilateral power flow
blending table
blind-date
can picafort
chelonitoxism
cold weld
color-removing preparation
companion way
compression terminal pressure
contact section
continuous normalized design
conus bullatus
crottles
DASD (direct access storage device)
data signalling rate
decahydrocarbazole
deciliter
decimeter-wave mixer
diddled
diplectrona ilanensis
divide the work
fast switching circuit
fenestella
fortified tyre
fuel consumption test
Gadaisu
gradacac
granny dumping
helpee
high speed line printer
hoodooism
Hook I.
instrantstart
intake auxiliary air
intertask communications
ipsative score
jettas
kim il - sung
Kolding
leg opener
lift method
Lindozero
mail teller
margin guide
Moh's scale number
Mollisieae
monniers
myres
Nemophila maculata
Nervus supratrochlearis
nitroethylene
non adiabatic pulsation
nonmicrofibrillar
nonsedimentable
nonsuburban
obvolvent
order Rajiformes
orthodoxical
oxynervone
peroneum
philosophical necessity
pmg
Polyosma cambodiana
Pro-pterygium
quartz-syenite
rag rug
rat(-)pack
rectifier ripple factor
red underwings
ride-film
robbery insurance
safety work practices
Sarcinomyces
school-terms
segregation crack
shadow column instrument
shintoisms
ship time
socrates program (european union)
software kit
soil water flow
speed ramp
spindleshaped
St Joan
taoyuan
tensor space of degree k
terpinolene
title insert
trade-off-decision
training procedure
water injection cooled engine
X-ray shield
Z cam