记忆方法
将“patrimony”分解为“pa”和“trimony”。想象“pa”是“pay”（支付）的缩写，表示家族遗产作为过去一代或多代所积累的财富，就像是一种“支付”给后代的东西。“trimony”则可以联想到“trinity”（三位一体），象征家族遗产的连续性，就像是一代一代相传的三位一体。这样的联想可以帮助记忆单词“patrimony”表示遗产或家族遗产。
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中文词源
patrimony 文物，祖传遗产
patri-,父亲，-mony,名词后缀。引申词义父亲留下的财产，祖传遗产，文物。
英语词源
- patrimony
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patrimony: see patron
- patrimony (n.)
- mid-14c., "property of the Church," also "spiritual legacy of Christ," from Old French patremoine "heritage, patrimony" (12c.) and directly from Latin patrimonium "a paternal estate, inheritance from a father," also figurative, from pater (genitive patris) "father" (see father (n.)) + -monium, suffix signifying action, state, condition. Meaning "property inherited from a father or ancestors" is attested from late 14c. Figurative sense of "immaterial things handed down from the past" is from 1580s. A curious sense contrast to matrimony.
权威例句
- 1. In the 1930's, The National Trust began its campaign to save Britain's patrimony of threatened country houses.
- 20世纪30年代，全国名胜古迹托管协会开始行动起来拯救英国面临威胁的文物级乡村宅第。
- 2. I left my parents' house, relinquished my estate and my patrimony.
- 我离开了父母的家，放弃了我的房产和祖传财产。
- 3. They maintained a superior legal position and imposed traditional notions of patrimony.
- 男性拥有较优势的法令地位,并受益于有继承家业的传统观念.
- 4. Gambling has come to the rescue of China's cultural patrimony.
- 赌博来拯救中国的文化遗产了.
- 5. His grandfather left the patrimony to him.
- 他的祖父把祖传的财物留给了他.