t字母开头的单词列表
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tail-gate(n.)
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tail-hook(n.)
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tailless(adj.)
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tailor(n.)
公元1300年左右,源自盎格鲁-法语 tailour,古法语 tailleor “裁缝”,也指“石匠”(13世纪,现代法语 tailleur),字面意思是“切割者”,源自 tailler “切割”,来自晚期拉丁语或古中世纪拉丁语 taliare “分裂”(类似于中世纪拉丁语 taliator vestium “裁缝”),源自拉丁语 talea “细长的棍子、杆子; 切割、嫩枝”。
Although historically the tailor is the cutter, in the trade the 'tailor' is the man who sews or makes up what the 'cutter' has shaped. [OED]
尽管从历史上看 tailor 是 cutter,但在行业中,“裁缝”是指缝纫或制作“裁剪师”所设计的衣物。[OED]
后期拉丁语的意义发展是“为嫁接而剪下的植物的一部分”,因此是一个动词,“剪下嫩枝”,然后是一般的“切割”。可能的同源词包括梵语 talah “葡萄酒棕榈树”,古立陶宛语 talokas “年轻女孩”,希腊语 talis “可嫁的女孩”(为了意义,可参考 slip of a girl, twiggy),伊特鲁里亚语 Tholna,年轻女神的名字。
Kent. ... You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.
Corn. Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?
Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone cutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill, though they had been but two hours at the trade.
["King Lear"]
肯特。...你这个懦夫,你与生俱来就不像人,是裁缝做的。
康沃尔。你真是个奇怪的家伙:裁缝能造人吗?
肯特。是的,先生,一个裁缝:一个石匠,或者一个画家,即使他们只从事这个行业两个小时,也不可能把他做得这么糟糕。
["李尔王"]
裁缝是按照要求制作外套的人,与 clothier 相对,后者是制作现成销售的。Tailor-made 首次记录于1832年(比喻意义),字面意思是“重而朴素,注重合身度,几乎没有装饰”,指的是裁缝制作的女装,而不是裁缝师制作的。
tailor(v.)
1660年代出自 tailor(裁缝)(n.)。"将(某物)设计以适应需要"的比喻意义可以追溯到1942年。相关词汇: Tailored(量身定做的); tailoring(裁缝业)。
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tailor-made(adj.)
by 1830 in the figurative sense of "made or shaped to suit" a person or situation, usually slighting.
If we can in any way persuade the young ladies, that the highest trait of beauty they can possess, is a countenance of independence and sufficiency to themselves; ... smirking dandies, shop window loiterers, little puny, tailor-made, essenced time killers, will disappear as insects in summer are drowned in honey. [Greenfield, Mass., Gazette, May 11, 1830]
Perhaps on the contemporary notion of a tailor as "one who makes outer garments to order," as opposed to a clothier, who makes them for sale ready-made. But the expression may owe something to Shakespeare:
Kent. ... You cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee; a tailor made thee.
Corn. Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?
Kent. Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone cutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill, though they had been but two hours at the trade.
["King Lear"]
The later literal sense (by 1873) was "heavy and plain, with attention to exact fit and with little ornamentation," as of women's garments made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker.
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tail-pipe(n.)
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tail-race(n.)
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tailspin(n.)
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tain(n.)
“薄锡片用于镜子等”,1858年,源自法语“tain”(17世纪),是“étain”(锡)的一种变体,源自拉丁语“stagnum”和“stannum”(含银铅合金),晚期拉丁语称其为“锡”(参见 stannic)。
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taint(v.)
taint(n.)
大约1600年,“污点,斑点”,源自古法语 teint “颜色,色调,染料,污渍”,源自拉丁语 tinctus “染色”,源自 tingere “染色”(参见 tincture)。意思是“道德上的污点,腐败,污染影响”,始于1610年代。
taint
也有 'taint,代表着 it ain't 的口语缩写,出现在19世纪30年代的美国英语中。关于会阴部的笑话至少可以追溯到1977年。