| 正面 | 12617.prerogative 英 [prɪ'rɒgətɪv]美     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. crypt => grotto => grotesque.2. Etymologically, grotesque means 'grotto-like'. 3. Its Italian source, grottesco, was used in the phrase pittura grottesca, literally 'grotto-like pictures', denoting wall paintings of the sort discovered in the excavated basements of old buildings. 4. Many of them were evidently bizarre or highly imaginative, and so grottesca came to mean 'fanciful, fantastic'.n. 特权adj. 有特权的 例句： 1. In many countries education is still the prerogative of the rich.在许多国家接受教育仍然是富人的特权。 prerogative 优先权，特权pre-,在前，早于，-rog,要求，词源同reach,arrogant.比喻用法。 prerogativeprerogative: [14] Latin praerogāre meant ‘ask before others’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘before’ and rogāre ‘ask’, source also of English interrogate [15]). The term praerogātīva (based on its past participle) was applied to those electoral groups who were ‘invited before others’ to vote, or in other words had the privilege of voting first, in elections for state officials. Hence the word (acquired by English via Old French prerogative) came to mean in general ‘right to precedence, privilege’.=> arrogant, interrogateprerogative (n.)"special right or privilege granted to someone," late 14c. (in Anglo-Latin from late 13c.), from Old French prerogative (14c.), Medieval Latin prerogativa "special right," from Latin praerogativa "prerogative, previous choice or election," originally (with tribus, centuria) "unit of 100 voters who by lot voted first in the Roman comita," noun use of fem. of praerogativus (adj.) "chosen to vote first," from praerogere "ask before others," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + rogare "to ask" (see rogation)." |