民间词源创造了cheeseburger和beanburger,但最初hamburger一词实际上是以德国汉堡市命名的。
Folk etymology has created the cheeseburger and the beanburger, but the first hamburgers were in fact named after the city of Hamburg.
gratification和gratitude有相同的词源。
"Gratification" and "gratitude" have the same etymological root.
“Serendipity”这个词,是在1854年由霍勒斯·沃波尔在一封信中创造的,这个词源于一个关于三个王子的故事,他们“总是意外地发现那些他们无意寻找的东西”。
The word "serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who "were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of".
Cosplay 一词源自日本,是“costume ”和“play ”的合成词。
The term Cosplay is derived from Japan and is a composite word of "costume" and "play".
“lunacy”这个表示“疯狂”的词源自“Luna ”,是罗马神话中月光女神的拉丁名。
The word lunacy, meaning "madness", is derived from Luna, the Latin name for the Roman goddess of the moon.
“策略”(strategy)一词源自于希腊文的“strategos”,意谓“将军的技艺”。
The word "strategy" is actually derived from a Greek word "strategos" which means "the art of the general".
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢?
那么先来看一下这个词的词源。
这个名字的词源尚不清楚。
词源:“zone”一词是指面积或地方。
这两个词的词源也很有趣。
不过,除此以外,还有个词源学上更加隐晦的笑话。
理论这个词的词源非常复杂,你们不需要了解。
Now the word theory has a very complicated etymological history that I won't trouble you with.
词源学看起来有办法证明顶针一词曾经指拇指。
Etymology, it appears, has the means to prove that thimbles were at one time meant for the thumb.
这个词的词源,能够帮助我们回答这个问题吗?
只要查一下这些单词的词源,它们的意思就会变得更加明晰。
These meanings are made more evident in looking at the etymology for these words.
这些意思的train实际上和同一个词源相关。
All of these trains, and more, do in fact relate to the same word root.
真正的词源似乎是这样的:它作为俚语出现在1700年左右。
So the real etymology is that it appeared, evidently as slang, in around 1700.
现在你已经读完了,下面说单词simple的更简化的词源。
Now that you've read through all of that here's the much simplified etymology of the word simple.
讽刺的是,proclivity的词源恰好与后面那种用法吻合。
The etymology of the word proclivity is ironically appropriate for this flavor of usage.
讽刺的是,proclivity的词源恰好与后面那种用法吻合。
The etymology of the word proclivity is ironically appropriate for this flavor of usage.
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