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Zone Latin Belt Gird Recorded 1774.Zone 英 Zəʊn]美

正面 1774.zone
英 [zəʊn]美 [zon]

背面
释义:
n. 地带;地区;联防vi. 分成区vt. 使分成地带;环绕n. (Zone)人名;(塞)佐内
例句:
1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.设立了安全区以防止游击队员的渗入。

1. contra‐在街道的对面形成.2. 在街道的两边形成对照。3. 相反的街道形成对照。
zone 地区来自拉丁语zone,地理分布带,来自PIE*yos,带子,腰带,词源同zoster.
zone (n.)late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zone "a belt, the girdle worn by women at the hips," related to zonnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yos- "to gird" (cognates: Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle"). The 10c. Anglo-Saxon treatise on astronomy translates Latin quinque zonas as fyf gyrdlas. Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927.zone (v.)1760, "mark with zones," from zone (n.). Land use planning sense is from 1916. Related: Zoned; zoning."

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