| 正面 | 6542.water 英 ['wɔːtə]美 ['wɔtɚ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| 背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 1. 音译“马拉松”。公元前490年,一场激烈的战役在位于雅典东北40公里处的村镇——马拉松(Marathon)打响。最终,雅典人在米太亚得的统率下,打败了波斯人。这是一场决定性的战役。通过这场战役,雅典人击退了波斯人的入侵,拯救了希腊,结束了第一次米堤亚战争。为了尽快将胜利的消息告知国人,雅典军队派了一名赛跑运动员回去报信。这名运动员从战场一口气跑到了雅典城。当他到达目的地,刚宣布完胜利的喜讯后,就一头栽倒在地,力竭而死。为了纪念这位勇敢的士兵,人们于19世纪末设立了一个距离为42.195公里的长跑比赛项目并将其命名为“马拉松”。时至今天,马拉松赛跑已成为奥运会的收官项目。n. 水;海水;雨水;海域,大片的水vt. 使湿;供以水;给…浇水vi. 加水;流泪n. (Water)人名;(英)沃特 例句: 1. Nora was deflowered by a man who worked in a soda-water factory.在汽水厂工作的一个男子夺去了诺拉的童贞。 water 水来自PIE*wed,水,湿的,词源同wet,undulate,otter.该词通常被语言学家认为是无生命的水,而PIE*ap则是有生命的水,词源同aquatic,Punjab.参照fire,ignite. waterwater: [OE] Water is an ancient and widespread word, which goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *wodōr. Its relatives include Greek húdōr ‘water’ (source of the English prefix hydro-), Latin unda ‘wave’ (source of English redundant, surround, undulate, etc), Russian voda ‘water’ (source of English vodka), Gaelic uisge ‘water’ (source of English whisky), Lithuanian vanduō ‘water’, Latvian ūdens ‘water’, Sanskrit udán ‘water’, and Hittite watar ‘water’.In the Germanic languages it has become German wasser (source of English vaseline), Dutch and English water, Swedish vatten, and Danish vand. Otter comes from a variant of the same Indo-European base, as may winter, and wet is closely related.=> abound, hydro-, otter, redundant, surround, undulate, vaseline, vodka, wet, whiskywater (n.1)Old English wæter, from Proto-Germanic *watar (cognates: Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water, Old High German wazzar, German Wasser, Old Norse vatn, Gothic wato "water"), from PIE *wod-or, from root *wed- (1) "water, wet" (cognates: Hittite watar, Sanskrit udrah, Greek hydor, Old Church Slavonic and Russian voda, Lithuanian vanduo, Old Prussian wundan, Gaelic uisge "water;" Latin unda "wave"). To keep (one's) head above water in the figurative sense is recorded from 1742. Water cooler is recorded from 1846; water polo from 1884; water torture from 1928. Linguists believe PIE had two root words for water: *ap- and *wed-. The first (preserved in Sanskrit apah as well as Punjab and julep) was "animate," referring to water as a living force; the latter referred to it as an inanimate substance. The same probably was true of fire (n.).water (v.)Old English wæterian "moisten, irrigate, supply water to; lead (cattle) to water;" from water (n.1). Meaning "to dilute" is attested from late 14c.; now usually as water down (1850). To make water "urinate" is recorded from early 15c. Related: Watered; watering.water (n.2)measure of quality of a diamond, c. 1600, from water (n.1), perhaps as a translation of Arabic ma' "water," which also is used in the sense "lustre, splendor."" |
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