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Trend Middle English Sense Prevailing Tendency Eddy Bend

单词 trend
音标 [trend]
解释 v./n.趋势,倾向
红宝书 【英】 v./n.趋势,倾向(a prevailing tendency or inclination)
【考】 stream : eddy / trend : anomaly(旋涡是溪流中的反向 /反常是正常趋势中的 反向)
【例】 the trend of events(事态的趋势)
字源 trend (v.)
1590s, "to run or bend in a certain direction" (of rivers, coasts, etc.), from Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve," from Old English trendan "turn round, revolve, roll," from Proto-Germanic *trandijan (cognates: Old English trinde "round lump, ball," Old Frisian trind, Middle Low German trint "round," Middle Low German trent "ring, boundary," Dutch trent "circumference," Danish trind "round"); origin and connections outside Germanic uncertain. Sense of "have a general tendency" (used of events, opinions, etc.) is first recorded 1863, from the nautical sense. Related: Trended; trending.
trend (n.)
"the way something bends" (coastline, mountain range, etc.), 1777, earlier "round bend of a stream" (1620s), from trend (v.); sense of "general course or direction" is from 1884. Sense of "a prevailing new tendency in popular fashion or culture" is from c.1950.
不择手段背单词 v. /n. 趋势; 流行时尚
【记】源于: tend(v 趋向; 照管)
【类】stream: eddy = trend: anomaly旋涡是溪流中的反向 = 反常是趋势中的反向
趣味全助记 【记】tend 趋向,extend 伸展

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