时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 Earmark(专项拨款)的来历


读新闻读出了这个单词,随即脑子里闪出一个大问号——为什么“ear”(耳朵)+ “mark”(记号)=“专项拨款”?翻查辞源,恍然大悟,故事原来挺简单。 早在农耕时代,牲畜可是各家各户的命根。为防自家的猪、马、牛、羊被他人盗去,农户们就用刀在牲畜的耳朵上刻上醒目的记号,以此证明某猪某牛是自家的财产。久而久之,earmark就被引申为“标志性特点”和“指定(资金、时间等)作特定用途”。 看下面两个例句: Correct speech is an earmark of the educated man.(谈吐得体是受过教育的标志。) These funds are earmarked for our research.(这笔款项是专门拨给我们做研究的。)







标签: Earmark
学英语单词
Agetolitella
agwunobi
Ahaz
annual report on auditing and inspection
astraphobias
attribute of a task
auriculotemporal
autonomous regulatory development
awkward squads
biological evaluation
blast line
bookmarker
bupatis
butter-yellows
chacon c.
circumscribed abscess
clear away
coated-particle fuel
Code level.
committee of propery assessment
composition of homomorphisms
corneal grafting instruments set
cost data
crystadyne
de-americanize
ectocarpus van-bosseae
Elmlohe
etak
excess supply
face-centered orthorhombic
fanie
fenestrated hymen
file number
Fiskivötn
flame temperature detector
flash generator
flat pick
fm/fdm (frequency modulation/frequency division mutiplex)
fractional distillating tube
Garbo
grados
gravel bike
heterometrictitration
homogeneous integral equation
hydrocele of testis
iconolatrous
Joint global coordinator
joint recognition of welding robot
jonquilline
kitfoxes
Koumandou
law of mean
lophopilumnus dilatipes
mainlining
markingworth
mean energy
mediocrest
Metfield
moisture suction
nioigome
non collegiate
nonconversant
offsetted
phantom pain
phenicopter
photoyellowing
pinhead blister
plane layered medium
primary spermatogonium
programmercial
prototype memory unit
pulsewidth coding
radio luminescence
ramaway
refinder
Regio talocruralis posterior
remints
rhizoid
rotating beam apparatus
runner stopper
sample production
santera
semiskilled labour
server explorer
shelviest
shouzhu
single-step form of income statement
solid phase crystallization
spake
stomatics
subrogates
sulfotransferases
theoretical frequency
thrombolith (partzite)
toothed crown
trust mark
twelve inch
two pole
vertical advance
vycor tube
water avenss
xixua