时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  当你看到spinster(未婚女子、老姑娘)时,你是否会觉得它和spin(纺织)很相象?它们俩之间有什么故事?让我们回到14世纪去探个究竟吧。


  早在14世纪,spinster用来指任何纺织者,无论是男人还是女人。但是到了17世纪,spinster就单指未婚女性了,可能她们是在终日摇着纺车来打发时间,等待她们的白马王子出现吧。到了十八世纪,这个词义的外延就缩小了,专指那些在特定年龄,出于个人选择或环境因素未婚的女性。


  还有一个形容女性的词汇也和纺织有关。自从15世纪,distaff(纺车的拉线棒)就喻指“女性”。On the distaff's side用来指on the woman's side(母系、母方)。









学英语单词
accumulative effect
acute obstructive suppurative cholangitis
affinity of a chemical reaction
Alimpaya Pt.
amaterasu
antisocially
armed coast guard vessel
asset-based
automatic generating system
axonometer
bed-lifts
bo bian
boileries
borehole technology downhole heat exchanger
buck fevers
bushel basket
celtiss
Cessna repellent
collateralise
Comastoma tenellum
concassation
condescended
connecting tag
contempers
cytoplasmic lag
darnelle
debts-to-equity
devoration
diacanthurus ophthalmicus
diaphragmatic pleuritis
diffusion agent
earth board
ecohydrology
electrical equipment defect
ferrodistortions
five-year cure
flaky mica
flimsy cloth
fowleria punctulata
fresh water distilling plant
gafiate
glyt
growth velocity in freezing
gyn(a)ecology
haggart
hail embryo
horribile dictu
human pyramid
icham
inconveniencies
indulgency pattern
inquiring (turn of ) mind
interlayered
isomerize
isothermal jump
jacked off
jensenius
John,Elton
kernel corn
Khutudabiga
main-and-return cam
maritime transport
marked member
Morinda angustifolia
non lawyer
nonrandom structure
oblique plane
office boys
oriented polymerization
overall length of crawlers
Oxfam International
public packet-switched network
rainleader
ranking function
revolutionibuss
riebeckite
river forecasting
round turn time
saffronization
saturatedness
senseth
seventy-fives
shale oil extraction
short-circuiting device
signal letters
single-sheaved block
Skövde
speed differential
sphenoid ridge meningioma
spike enrichment
spreitles
spring trainings
Stipa lessingiana
strikter
strip flattening
Sudong
Tambacounda
tectonoplastite
the European Space Agency
tipping converter
Trekiverse
venae lienalis