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
1-bromomercuri-2-hydroxypropane
ABEIA
activity-tracker
advances received on indents
Age and wedlock tames man and beast.
al-taie
anterolateral syndrome
banana river
Beef Improvement Federation
beshower
Billington
biotinylated
boluss
boryslowite
building materials for civilian use
byzantinisms
cigar body
clupenin
combined symbol system
compensably
computer design automation
Cottus
Despujolsia
diallylmalonic acid
do a sum by proportion
drupose
employee reaction
enamel tile
engine test tool kit
equalizing suspension system
ethyl value
euthyphoria
favourer
fianl-value theorem
geomagnetic time scale
goum
hadiths
harmala alkaloid
Hilum pulmonis
hungtsaoite
hyperlipoidemias
hypoxial
ibrahims
idle channel noise (icn)
in the general
indigenous law
infrastructure projects
interiorizes
jigo
Kakenge
lathedog
Le Monastier
linear measures
live catalyst
loss of specie
low reliefs
machine base
magnetic grader
mesosternum
mistreadings
multisectoral operation
muscicapa sibirica sibirica
nominal voltage of impulse voltage generator
non-water-tight door
nonnitroglycerin explosive
offspringing
passing play
poetes
precinctual
process-oriented
pyruvate decarboxylase
railcar mover
rap someone's fingers
raschel netting
reduction law
Regge trajectory
residential location
retail market research
scimitars
sea water bronze
sector nozzle
self-collimation
shearer
signalling system
sloshed around
soil electrozhemistry
specification of contents
steam kettle
stereoscopic
stream function solution
stylum
subject-verb-object
superbaryon
telephone roulette
the sky's the limit
two-stage ejector
type A standard uncertainty
under-ruff
uniprocessor state
unsolveds
Welander's ulcer