时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  人们总是对神秘的占卜者和预言家心存敬畏,因为他们可能会说出你不知道的东西,或者事情的真相。对了,他们就叫做soothsayer。


  Sooth是一个比较古老的单词,最早出现在古英语中,源于印欧语系里表示“to be”的词根,和truth一样表示“真实,真相”。Soothsayer出现在1340年左右,当时仅表示“说出真相的人”。到了14世纪晚期,soothsayer的含义逐渐拓展,表示“预言家,占卜者,先知”。


  与之相关的还有一个动词soothe,表示“使平息;抚慰;使缓和”。公元950年左右,soothe表示“证明某事为真”。到了16世纪,sooth有了“在辩论中站在某人一边,肯定并鼓励其行为”的意义。17世纪,soothe才有了今天的含义。


  与soothsayer(占卜者)相似的词语还有fortune teller(算命者)和psychic(通灵者)。


 









学英语单词
-zas
accessory reproductive gland
advanced total capital
alkaline tide
Andrews, Julie
antennulae microvillares
antihunting
aspics
auxologist
bandi
behaviour genetics
bernath
black-hatting
blanc, cape
bluff charge
boswellia carteris
bubble cakes
calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor
cardial
census computer
codesigners
colour component
combined symbol
constant heat summation
d.k
DATY
deictical
Derkali
differential impedance
direct rolling
drug lords
drybrough
either or order
engagement controller
environpolitics
etch figure
extimulates
firedevil
flannelbushes
gasifiable pattern
generation-skipping
give umbrage
Glanaruddery Mts.
Gourma, Prov.de
Grammar check
heavy wet
heterophytic bacteria
hex(o)estrol
intelligence preparation of the battlespace
jewelry's industry
job control language simplification
Let my girls hang
letting go of
marriage by proxy
method of laminae
mineral resources law
mork
muckrakes
multi-mode
Namdaech'ǒn
nuclear radiation thickness meter
optical type font
ossa metacarpalia
paludariums
panvitalists
permaculturists
phlebitis of deep vessels of lower extremities
pipe-works
police-officer
polystilbene
power like structure
priori
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ray(s)
regulation system
residential hygiene
retherming
revolting
rigidity index
sedes
senior technical director
set someone's pulse racing
sign-value notation
signal pulse
single-roll caster
sinus transversuss
sodosols
sound-muffling
steel content
straightening cutting machine
strainest
szepingkai
tank bulkhead
tape remaining
terminal bulb
traffic of influence
trauma of spleen
unabbreviating
united states mariness
verbids
very high frequency jammer
Zeeman displacement