| 正面 | 180.about 英 [ə'baʊt]美 [ə'baʊt]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. Spelling shew, popular 18c. and surviving into early 19c., represents obsolete pronunciation (rhymes with view).2. 音译“秀”，如：talk-show（脱口秀）。prep. 关于；大约adj. 在附近的；四处走动的；在起作用的adv. 大约；周围；到处n. 大致；粗枝大叶；不拘小节的人n. (About)人名；(法)阿布 例句： 1. No matter where you go in life or how old you get, there's always something new to learn about. After all, life is full of surprises.不管你生活在哪里，你有多少岁，总有新东西要学习，毕竟，生活总是充满惊喜。 about 大约来自古英语onbutan, a- 同on , -b同by, -ut为out词根。字面意思为在外面的,后指大约。 aboutabout: [OE] About in Old English times meant ‘around the outside of’; it did not develop its commonest present-day meaning, ‘concerning’, until the 13th century. In its earliest incarnation it was onbūtan, a compound made up of on and būtan ‘outside’ (this is the same word as modern English but, which was itself originally a compound, formed from the ancestors of by and out – so broken down into its ultimate constituents, about is on by out).=> but, by, outabout (adv.)Old English abutan, earlier onbutan "on the outside of," from on (see on; also see a- (1)) + be "by" (see by) + utan "outside," from ut (see out (adv.)). By 13c. it had forced out Old English ymbe, ymbutan for meaning "in the neighborhood of." Abouts, with adverbial genitive, still found in hereabouts, etc., probably is a northern dialectal form. About face as a military command (short for right about face) is first attested 1861, American English." |