时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  天气越来越冷,而美国总统大选却如火如荼,candidate也成为几亿美国选民成天挂在嘴边的热门词汇,可你知道吗,candidate其实是个外来词。


  Candidate于17世纪出现在英语中,但其词源可以追溯到古罗马时代。和今天一样,当时的人们认为白色象征着纯洁、正直和清廉。因此,参加公职竞选的市民们就会按习俗穿上白色的宽外袍(togas)。


  巧合的是,togas还有一个意思就是“参议员的职位”,这和竞选者的衣着风格也脱不了干系。


  白色在拉丁语中是candidus,因此一位积极热心而有抱负的政府官员就被称为candidatus,这个词后来通过法语传到英语中来,就成了今天最热门的candidate。









学英语单词
ageing of a magnet
air pressure operating mechanism
all in one camera
ambulant edema
apoplexy involving the hollow organs
Arnish
arteria cerebri
athwartships bottom floor
attunements
auricupride (cuproauride)
buret stand
chordoid larva
chronic erythematous edema of the upper face
circular negotiation form credit
colusion
commutator bar assembly
constant-level lubrication
continuous eigen value
coulometric hygrometer
curbstoners
cyclonic phase
Dangjin-gun
declarative knowledge representation
devorced
diffraction absorption
digital function
double base composition
early adolescence
ECPERT
elecrocautery
fenson
filler caps
finishing material
flame spray
friedrich wilhelm nietzsches
fuel impurity
gear scoring
genbiology
germfreer
grain EMC curves
grear
Guajaba, Cayo
Hankel function of the second kind
have the end upon
henricus
hettrick
humas
hypergeometric function of confluent type
imsa
incumbent carrier
lay an ambush for
Lingulacea
locomotive cab
low-velocity star
macronucleocytes
measuring column
mercede
microtechnological
milit.
moral dementia
Morquio
N. A.
national labor turnover
NBMPR
Neoplectana
nondescriptly
nonreactionary
Nziblékro
oscillating shaft crank slide block stud
oxidizing process
parenthesise
perfluorotributylamine
photoelectrophoresis
pneumatic grass cutter
postripening
R.H.A.
Rakoshyn
rock-basin
romo
rosings
sauropterygias
scowl at
scyphistoma
sexual psychophysiology
soft-balls
St-Gaudens
statistical variable estimation
STS (software test system)
subsulphides
sulfantimonate
terrero
tuskushi mai (japan)
under-datary
uptream reach length
Utegi
uterine glands
watusiing
well-saved
welt staple lasting machine
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
white power
zygomaticomalar