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正面 164.group
英 [gruːp]美 [ɡrup]

背面
释义:
n. 组;团体adj. 群的;团体的vi. 聚合vt. 把…聚集;把…分组
例句:
1. I thought I'd enrol you with an art group at the school.我想我会吸收你参加学校的一个艺术团。

1. alt- => ald => old.2. => grown tall. => grown old, grown up, adult.
group 群来自PIE*ger, 弯,转,成团,词源同crowd,aggregate.
groupgroup: [17] Group was originally a term in art criticism. It referred to the disposition of a set of figures or objects in a painting, drawing, etc. Not until the 18th century was it used in its current general sense. It comes via French groupe from Italian gruppo, which was borrowed originally from prehistoric Germanic *kruppaz ‘round mass, lump’ (formed from the same base as produced English crop).=> cropgroup (n.)1690s, originally an art criticism term, "assemblage of figures or objects forming a harmonious whole in a painting or design," from French groupe "cluster, group" (17c.), from Italian gruppo "group, knot," which probably is, with Spanish grupo, from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz "round mass, lump," part of the general group of Germanic kr- words with the sense :rounded mass" (such as crop (n.). Extended to "any assemblage, a number of individuals related in some way" by 1736. Meaning "pop music combo" is from 1958.group (v.)"form into a group or groups," 1718 (transitive), 1801 (intransitive), from group (n.). Related: Grouped; grouping."

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