1·These roller bags that make it easier to lug your junk around airports are in keeping with etymology stretching back more than 600 years.
这些滚轮包可以让你更方便地在机场拖着你的杂物,它的词源可以追溯到600多年前。
2·So what does all this have to do with etymology?
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢?
3·So the etymology of vichyssoise will come first.
那么先来看一下这个词的词源。
4·The etymology of the word midwife reflects the fact that assisting in bringing a new little person into this world has long been a gender role and almost completely dominated by women.
这个词的词源反映了一个事实,即帮助引导新生命来到这个世上的助产员长期是由一种性别角色担当,而她们几乎完全被女人垄断。
5·So these roller bags that make it easier to lug your junk around airports are in keeping with etymology stretching back more than 600 years.
有了这种装有滚轮的箱包,你在机场就能轻松地拖着大堆杂物四处行走,这种形象也和它600多年前的词源相一致。
1·The poor Amazons had to start mutilating themselves because some big boob thoughtlessly dabbled in the dark art of etymology without the proper equipment.
由于某些笨蛋不加思考、未用合适的工具就涉足词源学的黑暗艺术而导致可怜的亚马逊女战士开始自残身体。
2·He was surely wrong, but his folk etymology is still firmly embedded in the collective consciousness after more than two dozen centuries.
他显然是错了,但几个世纪后,他通俗易通的词源学仍坚实地盘踞这众人的意识之中。
3·Etymology: over England; from one land to another; into Ireland.
词源学:越过英格兰,从一个陆地到另一个陆地,爱尔兰。
4·Etymology can only ask why a small cuplike guard used in sewing is called a thimble, though it is put on the third finger.
词源学只能问,为什么缝纫时使用的一个小杯状装置被称为顶针,但它却是在中指上使用的。
5·The history and evolution of Chinese characters is such a messy accretion of historical sediment and false cognates that even scholars of Chinese take its etymology with a grain of salt.
中国汉字的历史和变革掺杂了太多历史的沉淀和似是而非的同源词汇,就算是中国的学者对本国的词源学研究也还是有所保留。
1·How better to check out the etymology of the word than to ask its creator?
还有什么比询问其创造者来查询一个单词语源更好的方法吗?
2·You might think that being subtly foolish is an oxymoron in itself, yet this definition goes a long way to uncover the etymology of oxymoron.
也许你觉得“敏锐的愚蠢”本身就是一种矛盾修饰法,不过这个定义对于发现oxymoron的语源大有帮助。
3·As soon as I began looking into the etymology of stutter I bumped up against its synonym stammer.
正当我开始研究Stutter的语源时,我突然碰到了它的同义词stammer。
4·Theodicy is the term coined by the eighteenth-century philosopher Leibniz, and he applied this term theodicy to just that kind of philosophical sentiment that's implied by its etymology.
斯奥迪斯是由18世纪哲学家莱布尼兹创造的,他用斯奥迪斯这个词指代,它的语源表达的哲学思想。
5·The hippies etymology is contentious.
关于嬉皮士的语源是有争议的。
1·Some of it is about etymology, about the nature of words and their casual links with the elements around us.
有一些故事是关于语源学的,关于语言的本质以及那些词语与我们周围的元素的偶然联系。
2·It turns out that entire etymology research departments with vast databases at world leading universities don't really have much idea either so I'm in good company.
结果,那些世界领先大学里拥有海量数据库的语源学研究机构也说不出个所以然,真是吾道不孤啊。
3·Bryson was indeed wrong, but it turns out the real etymology is even less plausible.
Bryson的确是错了,然而该词背后真正的语源学背景似乎更不可信。
4·Butterflies are usually objects of delight but the proposed etymology for the name comes in various flavors of whatever the opposite of delight is.
蝴蝶常常被看做快乐的象征。可语源学考察的结果全是快乐的反义词。
5·Ci Quan took the Western grammar thought as the instruction, has made the careful classification from the etymology Angle to the function word.
《词诠》以西方语法学思想为指导,从语源学角度对虚词作了细致分类。