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起源于1919年的英语单词列表

  • technocracy(n.)

    1919年,W.H. Smyth 将技术专家治理的新政府系统命名为“Technocracy”,由 techno--cracy 组成。

    William Henry Smyth, a distinguished engineer of Berkeley, California, wrote at the close of the war a series of thoughtful papers for the New York magazine "Industrial Management", on the subject of "Technocracy". His thesis was the need of a Supreme National Council of Scientists to advise us how best to live, and how most efficiently to realize our individual aspirations and our national purpose. [The Bookman, March 1922]
    加利福尼亚州伯克利市著名工程师威廉·亨利·斯密斯为纽约杂志《工业管理》撰写了一系列关于“Technocracy”的深思熟虑的文章。他的论点是需要一个最高国家科学委员会来为我们提供建议,以便最好地生活,最有效地实现我们的个人愿望和国家目标。[《图书馆员》杂志,1922年3月]

    早在1895年,该词就曾用于医学领域。

  • tree-ring(n.)

    one of the visibly marked sections of the wood of a tree, in concentric circles, roughly indicating a year of its growth, by 1919, from tree (n.) + ring (n.). Earlier they were called annual rings (by 1906). Cross-identification of ring sequences in different trees was recognized as a way to determine dates by 1911.

  • vino(n.)

    "劣质酒",1919年,口语,来自意大利和西班牙语的“葡萄酒”一词,源自拉丁语 vinum(参见 vine(n.))。早在1902年,它就是菲律宾本土饮料的名称。

  • voyeuristic(adj.)

    1919年,由 voyeur-istic 组成。相关词汇: Voyeuristically

  • wonky(adj.)

    "摇晃的,昏沉的,不稳定的",始见于1919年,起源不明。德语前缀 wankel- 有类似的意义。可能源自基于古英语 wancol 的方言词汇,意为"摇晃的,蹒跚的"(参见 wench(名词))。