epithet

epithets 是 epithet 的复数形式,页面展示原形释义。
英 [ˈep.ɪ.θet] 美 [ˈep.ə.θet]
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记忆方法

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为“epithet”这个单词构建一个简单的记忆方法,可以将其分解为两个部分:

1. **epi-**:这个前缀通常与“覆盖”或“在上面”有关,可以想象一个“覆盖”或“加在”名词之上的形容词或称呼。
2. **-thet**:与“制作”或“创造”有关,可以联想到创造出这样的形容词或称呼。

结合这两部分,记忆方法可以是:“epithet”是一个“制作”(-thet)用来“覆盖”(epi-)名词的词,即“创造出的称呼或形容词”。这样,你就可以通过“制作覆盖”这个词组来记住“epithet”的含义。
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中文词源

epithet 别称,绰号

epi-, 在上,其它。-thet, 放置,词源同do, theme, thesis. 即附加的名字,别称。

英语词源

epithet
epithet: [16] Etymologically, an epithet is a word that is ‘put on’ to or ‘added’ to another. The term comes from Greek epítheton, which meant literally ‘addition’, but was used by Greek grammarians for ‘adjective’. It was a derivative of epitithénai ‘put on, add’, a compound verb formed from the prefix epí- ‘on’ and tithénai ‘place, put’ (a relative of English do and theme). By the time the word reached English (via French or Latin) it had moved over from the vocabulary of the grammarian to that of the layman, in the sense ‘descriptive appellation’.
=> do, theme
epithet (n.)
"descriptive name for a person or thing," 1570s, from Middle French épithète or directly from Latin epitheton (source also of Spanish epíteto, Portuguese epitheto, Italian epiteto), from Greek epitheton "an epithet; something added," noun use of adjective (neuter of epithetos) "attributed, added, assumed," from epitithenai "to add on," from epi "in addition" (see epi-) + tithenai "to put" (see theme). Related: Epithetic; epithetical.

权威例句

1. " I wonder what he'll find to match this epithet, commented another man.
“ 看他对上一句什么, ”又一个说.
2. In ` Alfred the Great', ` the Great'is an epithet.
"阿尔弗雷德大帝"中的"大帝 " 是个称号.
3. The specific epithet variously did or did not repeat a key word from the phrase - name.
种加词不同程度地重复或不重复同片语名称的某个关键词.
4. An epithet that sums up my feelings.
简洁地表达了我思想感情的形容词.
5. Indeed, some observers fear that anti - science epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless.
确实, 一些观察者担心 反 科学这个词正处于消失的边际.

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