时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  尽管今天我们用loom来表示“织布机”,但hairloom和这个关系并不大。Heirloom是一个复合词,由heir和loom两部分组成。


  Heirloom里的heir表示“继承人,后嗣”,这是我们耳熟能详的。后来heir的意义有所扩大,表示“(职位)接任者,后继者,后续的事物”,例如:Thomas Kinkade is heir to the schlock art market once dominated by Walter Keane's wide-eyed children.


  Heirloom里的loom来自中世纪古英语lome,最初表示“任何一种工具”,直到15世纪初才专指“纺织工具,织布机”。


  Heirloom最早也出现在15世纪初期,表示祖先遗留下来的任何一种工具或物品。到了17世纪,它才有了今天的含义,表示“祖传遗物,传家宝”。









学英语单词
above-tree-line
adaptation of methods
advanced systems inc.
alanah
aporhyolite
Arabist
backbone motion
base surface
bigamies
Bovini
calliostoma shinagawaense
captaines
carcelia (carceliella) aberrans
chronemically
colour induction
complete miscibility
concubinize
corporate-banking
corycidine
deetiolation
deferred payment transactions
dehong dais
disseverment
dissolve control unit
dorsal tarsometatarsal ligaments
Dracontium
einbender
electric chuck
emulsion opal glass
excrementize
executive produces
extended object
fertile period
filtrate reducer for cement slurry
garrison belt
gastroduodenoscopy
getterupper
gialanella
glacial stagnation
guanidinium isothiocyanate
handweaving
harmonic conjugate
high speed conveyer
Holmes Stewart phenomenon
host-to-IMP control information
houres
iatrogenic immunosuppression
intermolecular respiration
interrupt priority chip
JCSM
kvarner (kvarnerski zaljev)
lateral-thrust unit
lens blooming
liker
logical unit number
macrotone
macrovoid
magnification factor meter
maloofs
marginal syncytium
maximum picture width
metahumans
monitor action routine
moorsom
nocireceptor
non-coherent IR receiver
nonenolizable
OneID
Paroho
patented medicine
paxite
propose a motion
quick acting brake
reclaimer
Reform Club
retrospective searching
rotor wake
salt wind
samairum
Scrophularia fargesii
see sb out
self-crossed
serpent-like
single operator arc welding machine
skilless
solid-cored carbon
spoilage account
stebbings
stereogastrula
stereozone
stokehold ladder
strained tomatoes
strip biopsy
Strobilanthes glandibracteata
Sulcus venae subclaviae
tetraommatus kwantaoshanensis
Thalamosensory
thromboarteritis obliterans
totterers
wittichite (wittichenite)
work station