display

将“display”分解为“dis”和“play”。想象“dis”像是一个从幕后推向台前的动作，而“play”则是指展示。所以，“display”就是将某物或某人从非公开状态推向公众视线，即展示。

display 陈列

来自拉丁语displicare, 展开，dis-, 不，非，使相反，-plic, 卷入，卷进，词源同complicate, deploy. 即使展开，陈列。

display

display: [14] Display originally meant ‘unfold’, and it is related not to modern English play but to ply. It comes via Old French despleier (whose modern French descendant, déployer, is the source of English deploy [18]) from Latin displicāre. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘un-’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (source of or related to English accomplish, complicated, ply, and simple), and in classical Latin seems only to have had the metaphorical meaning ‘scatter’.

In medieval Latin, however, it returned to its underlying literal sense ‘unfold’, which was originally retained in English, particularly with reference to sails or flags. The notion of ‘spreading out’ is retained in splay, which was formed by lopping off the first syllable of display in the 14th century.
=> accomplish, complicate, deploy, ply, simple

display (v.)

late 13c., "unfurl" (a banner, etc.), from Old French desploiir (Modern French déployer) "unfold, unfasten, spread out" (of knots, sealed letters, etc.), from Latin displicare "to scatter," from dis- "un-, apart" (see dis-) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)).

Properly of sails or flags (and unconnected to play); meaning "reveal, exhibit" is late 14c. Related: Displayed; displaying.

display (n.)

1580s, "description," from display (v.). Meaning "exhibition" is from 1680s.

1. The most pleasurable experience of the evening was the wonderful fireworks display.

这个晚上最让人高兴的就是精彩的焰火表演。

2. It was an incredible display of motherly love and forgiveness.

那是慈母般关爱与宽容的了不起的表现。

3. Normally, such an outward display of affection is reserved for his mother.

通常，只有在母亲面前他的情感才会如此外露。

4. It is not unknown for valuable display items to go, ahem, missing.

贵重的展品，呃哼，丢失的话，会众人皆知。

5. She was leaning against a display case of prints of Paris.

她正倚靠在一个展示巴黎照片的陈列柜上。

【exposition, display, show, exhibition, fair, exhibit】
这组词都有“展览”的意思，其区别是：
exposition: 多指大型博览会或国际博览会。
display: 指展销会，商店橱窗或柜台上的陈列品。
show: 指艺术品、农产品、工业品或商品等的任何形式的公开展览。
exhibition: 一般指较正规的展览会。
fair: 侧重指为促销商品而举办的展览会或商品交易会。
exhibit: 多指个人或团体陈列的展览品，规模可大可小。

【demonstrate, manifest, display, show, exhibit】
这组词都有“显示、显露、展现”的意思，其区别是：
demonstrate: 指明显地表露感情。也指用实例、实验推理等手段表演证明，或论证某一问题。
manifest: 书面正式用词，指明确地表明。
display: 多指将某物陈列在显眼之处以便让发现其优点，侧重有意识地显示。
show: 最普通用词，泛指任何有意或无意地把东西给别人看的行为。
exhibit: 指公开或正式地展示，以便引人注目或让人检查。