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
acetyl H acid
Agva
air compressor crank case
andaspis viticis
armonico
assembly-line
baby booms
background
Ballangen
Banksides
baroja
batsford
bearing pintle
cares
cargo ship safety radiotelegraphy certificate
cdwr
cetiosaurid
change-orientation
charges on bills for collection
closed degassing system
cold-driven rivet
content-addressed storage
convection theory of cyclones
cvm
deathlike
Desulfurellales
duykerboks
ecp (estimated critical position)
edmund burkes
enclosed ventilated
end-equipment
eqalizer
exacteth
facing ring
FC (fictitious carry)
feeler cover slide
filter plug
final audit
floor chisel
glyconanoparticle
golille
heat-fast,water-fast,light-fast
high bypass ratio engine
hot as hell
imbalms
instructives
J. I. L.
julian bonds
konsaho
lenns
linear slit
lipomatosis gigantea
lower explosive limit (lel)
majority operations
male superiority
maximum power output of wind turbine generator set
meteor shower
moiah stone
muddy ground
multichip integrated circuit
Nearctic region
nergaard
offput
overinterpreted
ovine chronic progressive pneumonia
peieris instability
perfeccin
pneumatic bubbling gauge
polyhedron clipping
postapoplectic
pre-obtain
prm (revolutions per minute)
protoplanetary discs
pseudoalgorithm
punce
R. C. M. P.
rationing transaction
respiratory count
rotary rain gun
secondary spore
segment roller
shiploader
software quality criteria
special leave
stash
statement of mercantile funds and application
statistical assimilation
sulfur butterfly
Sumesar Ra.
tableau format
Talalrol
Teddy boy
the lobby
three-color tube
travelling and miscellaneous expenses
unibodies
unrallied
Varro
voucher for receipt
Willemsdorp
wind tunnel test section
wunderlich