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English Lic Distinction 102.Only 英 əʊnlɪ]美 Onli 释义

正面 102.only
英 ['əʊnlɪ]美 ['onli]

背面
释义:
adv. 只,仅仅;不料adj. 唯一的,仅有的;最合适的conj. 但是;不过;可是
例句:
1. His house was the only settled home I had as a child.他的房子是我儿时唯一固定的家。

1. give => gift.2. thrive => thrift.3. 谐音“给物”。
only 唯一的来自one,一,-ly,形容词后缀。即一次性的。
onlyonly: [OE] Only is a compound formed in the Old English period from ān, ancestor of modern English one, and -lic ‘-ly’. It originally meant ‘solitary’ as well as ‘unique’, but this sense has been taken over by the related lonely. Only preserves the early diphthongal pronunciation which its source one has lost.=> lonely, oneonly (adj.)Old English ænlic, anlic "only, unique, solitary," literally "one-like," from an "one" (see one) + -lic "-like" (see -ly (1)). Use as an adverb and conjunction developed in Middle English. Distinction of only and alone (now usually in reference to emotional states) is unusual; in many languages the same word serves for both. German also has a distinction in allein/einzig. Phrase only-begotten (mid-15c.) is biblical, translating Latin unigenitus, Greek monogenes. The Old English form was ancenned."

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