| 正面 | 8668.contest 英 ['kɒntest]美 [kən'tɛst]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 与 stick 同源。2. st- (street) + ig (谐音“一个”) + ma (谐音“骂”) => 在大街上遇到一个泼妇骂街，这简直是耻辱、污点。3. 大街上挨了一个骂是耻辱。vt. 争辩；提出质疑vi. 竞争；争辩n. 竞赛；争夺；争论 例句： 1. The latest opinion polls are predicting a very close contest.最近的民意测验预测竞争将会非常激烈。 contest 比赛con-, 强调。-test, 见证，词源同attest, detest。字面意思即找人来作证的。 contestcontest: [16] The idea underlying contest, unlikely as it may seem, is of ‘bearing witness’. It goes back to Latin contestārī, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and testārī ‘bear witness’, which in turn was derived from testis ‘witness’ (whence English testament, testicle, and testimony). This verb signified the bringing of a lawsuit by ‘calling witnesses together’ from both sides.Hence was introduced the adversarial or competitive notion that passed into English, probably via Old French contester (although in the 16th and 17th centuries traces of the original Latin sense ‘bear joint witness, attest’ survived in English, presumably as a scholarly reintroduction).=> testament, testicle, testimonycontest (v.)c. 1600, from French contester "dispute, oppose," from Middle French, from Latin contestari (litem) "to call to witness, bring action," from com- "together" (see com-) + testari "to bear witness," from testis "a witness," (see testament). Calling witnesses as the first step in a legal combat. Related: Contestable; contested; contesting.contest (n.)1640s, from contest (v.)." |