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
addictologist
angle of incidence of maximum lift
artemisia simulans
ateloencephalia
audit procedures
automatic test and measurement systems
ballast pig
balloon-back Windsor chair
ballsuckers
blue pus
bona fide endorsee
bowed out
Breckenridge
bulb of corpus cavernosum
bush it
butyl isorhodanate
cadinene
calparine
capillary-tube wave
choking feeling
composition point
computerized criminal history file
condensation DET
convergence of algorithm
Cow and Calf
cum-twang
delivery sheet
dick about
dieffenbachia sequines
diesel dredge
disabuses
distribution of variance
dust precipitation
energy accumulation
ENTEROGONA
equity accounts
equivalent normal form method
equivalent state
fine design
flat bed plotter
flood control by reservoir regulation
frequency measuring bridge
functional linguistics
genotypic heterogeneity
get one's eye in
gets lost
goal areas
heat forging drawing
heat retaining capacity
hose-tops
hundstaupe
image space coordinate system
includes
index detector
initial cross-section
initial protion
innovation diffusion theory
interaction of balance system
joule, James Prescott
kantrowitz-donaldson inlet
labor disturbances
law interpretation
lie in wait(for)
mass of electron
metaclisa ornata
misapplies
non-selfembedding gramma
nutties
oblique trajectory
obsolete securities
obstet.
offshore oil-gas development well
on the first bound
ovalized
Palidoro
paramagnetic resonance
payments and receipts
philister
praevocalic
pyrictal
randomized block design
retirement of assets
round nut with set pin holes in side
sample-and-hold technique
Scarlem
semicontinuous-duty motor
snakingly
starting leakage
store interface link
superhuge computer
tenuti
thistle-down
thread tension releasing lever
to my thinking
total pannus
trinitro-phenoxide
ultraviolet-visible detector
Vadstena
values-for-money
Vilnesfjord
wensleys
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