perish-brink:我行我素也要看准方向
【造词理据】per-是前缀,表向前(=forward),引申指通过(=through),词根ish源自原始印欧语词根*ei-(走=to go),尤指我走(i go)。魔法师猜测可能是I表示手指,引申指“用手指指自己”,即指“我”,借指“我走”。perish原指“穿过、走过(=go through)”。
【例句】But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that fordestruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
倘若世界非得消亡两次,我想自己充分体验过恨可以说冰之于毁灭力量之大不相上下而且绰绰有余。
【同根词】Abitur; adit; ambience; ambient; ambit; ambition; ambitious; andante; anion; cation; circuit; coitus; commence;commencement; concomitant; constable; count (n.1) title of nobility; county; dysprosium; errant; exit; initial; initiate; initiation;introit; ion; issue; itinerant; itinerary; janitor; January; Janus; Jena; Mahayana; obiter; obituary; perish; praetor; Praetorian;preterite; sedition; sudden; trance; transient; transit; transitive; viscount.
【讨论】据此,exit的词根就应该是it,而不是ex了。元音字母在词根中表义的寥寥无几,且多为直接象形。像这里这种情况罕见,魔法师也是做更合理的猜想罢了。
【造词理据】-ibly是后缀,forcibly源自forcible,又源自force(力量),F表木栓、木钉,引申指绑缚,这里借“绑的很紧”指“有力量的”。这是魔法师的解读,词源词典里没有令人信服的解释,词源学家也是猜想。
【例句】Red Shirt leaders told reporters they were ready to negotiate if the army ends its efforts to forcibly curtail the spread of protests.
红衫军领导人对媒体记者说,如果军方停止强行收缩示威范围,他们随时可以谈判。
【同根词】force。
【造词理据】es-是ex-的变体,表出来(=out),词根cort源自correct,也就是说co-也是前缀,rt才是词根,是rect的缩略,源自*reg-(直线移动),R表头,引申指头领,这里指跟着领头的走、跟着向导走,所以escort不仅有护卫的意思,还兼有向导的意思。(前文derail讨论过)
【例句】And yet the men of civil eminence, who came immediately behind the militaryescort, were better worth a thoughtful observer's eye.
而紧随卫队而来的文职官员们,却更值得有头脑的旁观者瞩目。
【同根词】abrogate; address; adroit; Alaric; alert; anorectic; anorexia; arrogant; arrogate; bishopric; correct; corvee;derecho; derogate; derogatory; Dietrich; direct; dress; eldritch; erect; ergo; Eric; Frederick; Henry; incorrigible; interregnum;interrogate; maharajah; Maratha; prerogative; prorogue; rack (n.1) "frame with bars;" rail (n.1) "horizontal bar passing from one post or support to another;" Raj; rajah; rake (n.1) "toothed tool for drawing or scraping things together;" rake (n.2) "debauchee; idle, dissolute person;" rakish;rank (adj.) "corrupt, loathsome, foul;" real (n.) "small Spanish silver coin;" realm; reck; reckless; reckon; rectangle; rectify; rectilinear;rectitude; recto; recto-; rector; rectum; regal; regent; regicide; regime; regimen; regiment; region; regular; regulate; Regulus; Reich;reign; resurgent; rex; rich; right; Risorgimento; rogation; royal; rule; sord; source; subrogate; subrogation; surge; surrogate;viceroy.
【造词理据】象形。源自原始印欧语词根*bhren-(凸起=project),B形表凸起的边缘。
【例句】When his master halted at the brink of a pool, and looked round to call him, hestopped outright.
主人在一个水池边上停下来,回头唤它,它干脆不走了。
【同根词】front。
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单词成就英语,英语照见未来