Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
绝望人的讲论既然如风,你们还想要驳正言语吗。
The other day on the blog the Oxford Etymologist Anatoly Liberman just happened to mention in passing that the word "window" evolved from an earlier pair of words "wind" and "eye."
某一天,牛津词源学家Anatoly Liberman正好在他的博客上顺笔提到,window(窗户)是从“风”和“眼睛”这一对词演变而来。
In other words, it is oblivious of where the wind happens to be blowing from, which simplifies load-handling in places where the wind is fickle.
换句话说,它可以无视风从何方吹来,从而简化了在风变化无常之地的装卸。
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