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Settlement Village Sense 2181.Settlement 英 Set(ə)Lm(ə)Nt]美 Sɛtlmənt 释义

正面 2181.settlement
英 ['set(ə)lm(ə)nt]美 ['sɛtlmənt]

背面
释义:
n. 解决,处理;[会计] 结算;沉降;殖民
例句:
1. The village is a settlement of just fifty houses.这个村子里只住了50户人。

1、per- "thoroughly" + -ceiv- + -e.2、literally "take entirely".3、figuratively "grasp with the mind, learn, comprehend, recognize, notice".4、如今,在英语里只使用其比喻义、引申义。
settlement 安排,解决,处理settle,安排,解决,处理,-ment,名词后缀。
settlement (n.)1620s, "act of fixing or steadying;" from settle (v.) + -ment. Meaning "a colony," especially a new one, "tract of country newly developed" is attested from 1690s; that of "small village on the frontier" is from 1827, American English. Sense of "payment of an account" is from 1729; legal sense "a settling of arrangements" (of divorce, property transfer, etc.) is from 1670s."

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