英语释义

• based on or belonging to etymology;

  "I merely drew an etymological distinction"

片语

etymological phoneme词源音位

etymological charade本字

etymological comparison词源比较

etymological meanings语源义

etymological changes词化程度

etymological character本字考

Etymological Puns词源双关

etymological statistics词源统计分析法

etymological meaning源意义

英汉例句

• this might bespeak a larger appetite on the part of oliver hardy and if so there might be an etymological explanation for ollie’s quote.

  这可以表明奥利佛·哈代的胃口更大，果真如此的话，也许奥利的引用会有一个语源学的解释。

• highly attuned to the etymological prehistory of the english word infant.

  协调了初期英语的史前语源学。

• still, the other etymological sources i checked seemed to agree with the oed.

  即便如此，我查阅的其他资料似乎与oed吻合。

• not only did hensleigh write an etymological dictionary he just happened to be the grandson of josiah wedgwood, the guy who founded the fine china company.

  不仅是因为亨斯利写过一本语源学词典，还因为他恰好就是约西亚·韦奇伍德，那位优质瓷器公司的创始人的孙子。

• some of the commonest synonyms for walk in the english language (such as trudge, stroll and saunter) have no clear etymological roots.

  英语中，「行走」最常见的同义词就没有如此清晰的语源，这些同义词如跋涉、閑逛与漫步。

• the etymological meaning of both words is 「something added on.」

  从词源学的角度来看，两个词都有「附加物」的意思。

• in actual fact things are a little more hopeful than that for two etymological reasons.

  实际上，这个词并没有如此不堪。有两个词源上的原因。

• last night i saw christopher nolan「s film 「inception」, and i think its title is a small work of etymological genius.

  昨晚我看了克里斯托弗·诺兰的电影「奠基（inception）」，我认为这样的电影名字本身便是词源学天赋的表现。

• there is no question among any of the etymological dictionaries as to the fact that snafu comes from a military slang.

  不管是哪部词典，关于这个词来源于军中俚语的说法都没有疑问。

• and we」re reminded of the etymological root of our modern english word career.

  而后我们就会想起,现代英语文字语源学的根源。

• there’s an etymological connection between the platform upon which speeches are made and squirrels, rats and beavers.

  发表演说的讲台与松鼠、老鼠、海貍之间存在着语源上的联系。

• this might make you look at the next janitor you see a little differently when you’ve learned that the words january and janitor come from the same etymological root.

  当你知道「january」和「janitor」有着相同的词根时，再来看「janitor」，你会觉得有点儿不同。

• now the word theory has a very complicated etymological history that i won't trouble you with.

  理论这个词的词源非常复杂,你们不需要了解。

• glass is an example of a word that has shattered into lots of meanings we currently recognize but also with many earlier and forgotten etymological branches.

  （玻璃）是这样一个例词，它被打碎分成了很多我们现在还能识别的意义，但其中有不少意义是很久以前使用的，已经不知道了它的词源分支了。

• still, people sometimes throw around the insult 「ferret face」 and although this isn’t for etymological reasons, there is an etymological connection.

  人们现在仍然经常用「尖嘴猴腮」（ferretface）来骂别人。尽管这不是来自词源的原因，但还是与词汇的演变有着千丝万缕的联系。

• another etymological derivation is that william is a corruption of the french oillet, meaning 「little eye」.

  另一种说法是：william是法语单词oillet的音译，意为「小眼睛」。

• and to the receiver of a civilization, the etymological implications generated in their evolution were often lost when the fundamental concepts of the culture were translated.

  而对于文明的接受者，文化基本概念翻译之后，往往不能保留其源流当中的词源含义。

• the last etymological theory on our word of the day butterfly is that these pretty little creatures were named because their droppings were yellow and looked like butter.

  我们今天的单词，butterfly的最后一种词源考察结论是：这些可爱的小家伙得名于它们的便便——黄色，看起来像黄油一样的便便。

• this was so literally true that the etymological meaning of client is 「one who listens to be called」 since cluere meant 「to listen.」

  从词源上来看，说client是指「听从命令的人」準确无误，因为词源cluere就是「听」的意思。

• the idea of flipping from one entry to another, following a line of inquiry (especially etymological inquiry) from one page to another, even one volume to another, is a sensual experience.

  想象一下从一个词条翻到另外一个词条，顺着线索（尤其是词源的查询）从一页翻到另一页，从这一卷翻到另外一卷，（绝对）是一种感官体验。

• there have been etymological speculations over the centuries that the reason for this is that people who are cynical sneer at others in the same way that a dog rolls its lips back when it growls.

  几百年以来，词源学界对此有过各种各样的猜测，其中一条所给出下面的原因——那些愤世嫉俗的（cynical）人在鄙夷别人的时候，就像是狗在低声咆哮时咧着嘴巴一样。

• evidently many people over they years have made this association but it isn’t based on etymological fact.

  多年以来许多人显然把这作为联系两个单词的根据，但实际上这根据并没有词源学上的道理。

• but everything is not so simple. from time to time we run into old words that have 「organic, 」 etymological mb.

  从我们不时还会碰到旧单字里有「有机」词源的mb。

• in old english there was even a word for servant that had etymological roots meaning 「bread eater.」

  在古英语中，甚至还专门有一个对应于仆人的单词，它的词根就有「食面包者」（breadeater）的意思。

• so there are etymological reasons as well as sanitary reasons for adding bleach to the load of laundry that cleans the baby’s diapers.

  因此要求洗衣店使用漂白剂来清洗宝宝的尿布，就有了词源上的理由和卫生上的要求。

• the irony of the situation is that we, we in this room, are the true liberals, in the etymological and only worthy sense of that noble word.

  具有讽刺意味的是，这个房间中我们，不论是从词源学上，还是根据这个高贵词汇所表达的真实意思上来说，才是真正的自由主义者。

• not only did hensleigh write an etymological dictionary he just happened to be the grandson of josiah wedgwood, the guy who founded the fine china company.

  应该的。不仅是因为亨斯利写过一本语源学词典，还因为他恰好就是约西亚·韦奇伍德，那位优质瓷器公司的创始人的孙子。

• the etymological meaning of prince is 「takes first place」 since the word that came before it was french from latin, and in latin had been before that two words primus ceps.

  prince词源学上的意义是「占据首位」，它从拉丁语变化而来并进入法语，而在拉丁语里，最早出现过两个词：primusceps。