| 正面 | 7834.multinational 英 [mʌltɪ'næʃ(ə)n(ə)l]美 [,mʌltɪ'næʃnəl]     |
|---|---|
| 背面 |     释义： 1. excel / excellent => cell- / -cel "rise, be high, rise high" (Latin cellere (pp. celsus) "rise, be high"), cognate with Latin collis "hill", English hill, column, culminate.2. => hill, cul- "hill, top, peak, summit", col- "pillar, column, projecting object".3. => cul- + -men- / -min- "passive suffix" => culmen / culmin- "hill, top, peak, summit".4. Latin culmen (genitive culminis) "top, peak, summit".5. => col- + -umn (-omen-在此单词中的变体) (与单词 alumnus 类同，进行对照理解和记忆) => column "pillar, column, projecting object".6. culmin- "hill, top, peak, summit" + -ate => culminate.adj. 跨国公司的；多国的n. 跨国公司 例句： 1. In the mass production era multinational firms tended to centralize their operations.在大规模生产的时代，跨国公司往往实行集权化经营。 multinational 多国的，跨国的multi-,许多，多个，national,国家的。 multinational (adj.)also multi-national, by 1921, from multi- + national. Originally with reference to states; later (by 1960) to corporations and organizations. As a noun, short for multinational corporation, attested by 1971." |