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
-erel
a-high-lone
adhesie cement
adulterating
ALGOL declaration
amberboa moschatas
Anzanigo
Arctic exploration
atria
auxiliary contour line
backfield
bad-news
beam-like element
binary minicomputer code
blow the lid off
Bufalo
buried via
casler
cigar body
cokeville
color stripper
coordinative activity
deahl
dibromoketone
discriminated
disinhibitions
double headed nail
Dysodontia
eucheuma papulosa cotton et yendo.
floating school
forked cyme
Fort Ogden
frico
fungy
genetic character
geometric splines
Gosho Heinosuke
gym-shoe
hypomorphic
infrared pick-off
interstellar planet
Kwd
launch experiment outline
laxest
Litke, Ostrov
local exchange
log circular saw
margosas
method of repetitions
Mtbf, mean-time-between-failures.
mugilogobius abei
multilevel metallization
Mānnedorf
Nanhippus
niete mts.(putu ra.)
nitrogen sealed transformer
nondeceitful
obligatoriness
omega-oxidation theory
optimal grouping
pass through the accounts
patssi
plausibility assessment
polar vector
rajsi
recommended course indicator
recruitment and selection
Redwood Terrace
reservoir static data
Rhododendron russatum
rice grader
ring-toss
run-of-river station
russels
Sahel, Dép.du
San Bartolomé de la Torre
scanning transmission ion microscopy
scorching hot
sebolithus
sipple
spark-resistant wire wheel brush
sperm funnel
statement of mercantile operation
steenstrups
strigils
studie
subplane
System Halted
system interference
telebridges
Ten Mile
tendinitis of tibialis anterior
The black ox has trod on someone's foot.
to freight
touristically
transvenous catheter pacemaker
trustmark
ungroup sheets
vulvoperineal rupture
wave cut(rock)bench
Web box
yrin