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
3-dimensional
a rip-off
aetolias
amicable consultation
anhimas
arachniodes pseudoaristata
Arteria parietooccipitalis
Aunt Fanny
autotyphization
avicade
basic pulse
Beograd
beshoe
blank area
bone stump
cilicia (kilikya)
cleaning shoe
content of point set
continued confrontation
continuous production system
control oil system
controlled trials
copper disc rectifier
cyril northcote parkinsons
debutards
diamictite
didactics
direct overwrite disk
effec
ego instinct
elastic reel
electroacoustical
evillene
flat iron bar
fluorite structure
force duty room
four flushes
freshened up
furnculosis
fuse characteristics
gas absorbent
give prayers
good natures
Graafian vessels
gravida II
home-runs
hypernephroid tumor
ingot structure
inoffensively
insurance mechanism
intercepter fighter
international atomic energy agency
Leon Trotsky
long-transient effect
low-differential saturator
magnetic layer resistance
manifold truck
mcmc
mellinus
minacking
mini-amplifier
minimum unit cost
national fishing shelf
net amount payment
notched bar impact test
o'donoghue
one-bank holding company
oogonial branch
ossa palatinum
Paradeisi
parallel computation
Pekul'ney, Khrebet
polarizing microscopy
polyphagist
pulling strings
pulmonary system
pumice volcano(explosive volcano)
pump pit
quick turnover and small profit
radiation chemical reaction
regiones extremitatis superior
relative angular momentum
RNA-coding triplet
ruderies
sand-watch structure
series match
smug-boat
spring-trip shank
take good cheer from
theoreticist
thermodynamic Clausius-Clapeyron equation
touch-input system
tube-welding machine
uranium boride
Vallatisporities
variance-covariance
verbal translation
Vils
watthourmeter
Wishaw
xerafins
Yanngiyer