| 正面 | 2013.promise 英 ['prɒmɪs]美 ['prɑmɪs]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. ton- "sound, tone, accent" + -e.2. ton- "stretch" + -e.3. 由声调扩展、宽泛化到绘画中的色调，其实色调、声调都是有本意“stretch”引申而来。4. tongue => tone => tune.n. 许诺，允诺；希望vt. 允诺，许诺；给人以…的指望或希望vi. 许诺；有指望，有前途 例句： 1. The boy first showed promise as an athlete in grade school.这个男孩在上小学的时候就初次显示出成为运动员的潜力。 promise 承诺，保证来自古法语promesse,承诺，保证，来自拉丁语promissum,承诺，来自pro-,向前，-miss,送出，词源同mission,emit. promisepromise: [14] Latin prōmittere originally meant simply ‘send forth’ (it was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forward’ and mittere ‘send’, source of English mission, missile, transmit, etc). But it soon evolved metaphorically via ‘say in advance, foretell’ to ‘cause to expect’ and hence ‘promise’ – the sense adopted into English via its past participle prōmissum.=> admit, commit, missile, mission, submit, transmitpromise (n.)c. 1400, "a pledge, vow," from Old French promesse "promise, guarantee, assurance" (13c.) and directly from Latin promissum "a promise," noun use of neuter past participle of promittere "send forth; let go; foretell; assure beforehand, promise," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + mittere "to put, send" (see mission). The ground sense is "declaration made about the future, about some act to be done or not done."promise (v.)c. 1400, from promise (n.). Related: Promised; promising. Promised land (1530s) is a reference to the land of Canaan promised to Abraham and his progeny (Hebrew xi:9, etc.; Greek ten ges tes epangelias)." |