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Latin Desk Medieval Disc Greek Discus 1666.Desk 英

正面 1666.desk
英 [desk]美 [dɛsk]

背面
释义:
n. 办公桌;服务台;编辑部;(美)讲道台;乐谱架adj. 书桌的;桌上用的;伏案做的
例句:
1. He folded the papers and stuck them in his desk drawer.他将文件叠起来,塞进自己的书桌抽屉里。

1、re- "again" + cord-.2、该词可以说与remember是殊途同归。3、该词的最初含义为:repeat, reiterate, recite, tell, relate, report, make known; remember, call to mind, think over, be mindful of. 其后,其含义演变为:set down in writing, put sound or pictures on disks, tape, etc.4、记录、记载从某种意义上讲也就是对其说的内容进行重复、复述,将其记住。记录下来的东西其实就是无声的话语,有形的记忆,看得到的记忆。
desk 书桌词源同disk, 圆盘。引申词义圆桌,书桌。
deskdesk: [14] Desk, disc, dish, and dais – strange bedfellows semantically – form a little gang of words going back ultimately, via Latin discus, to Greek dískos ‘quoit’. Desk seems perhaps the least likely descendant of ‘quoit’, but it came about like this: Latin discus was used metaphorically, on the basis of its circular shape, for a ‘tray’ or ‘platter, dish’; and when such a tray was set on legs, it became a table. (German tisch ‘table’ comes directly from Vulgar Latin in this sense.) By the time English acquired it from medieval Latin it seems already to have developed the specialized meaning ‘table for writing or reading on’.=> dais, disc, dishdesk (n.)mid-14c., from Medieval Latin desca "table to write on" (mid-13c.), from Latin discus "quoit, platter, dish," from Greek diskos (see disk (n.)). The Medieval Latin is perhaps via Italian desco. Used figuratively of office or clerical work since 1797; desk job is first attested 1965."

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