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。