rich

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  • adj. 富有的;肥沃的;昂贵的
  • n. (Rich)人名;(丹)里克;(捷)里赫;(英、西)里奇;(葡、法)里什;
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1、rich 最早不是"有钱",是"有权有势、尊贵"。它和 royal(王室的)、regulate(管理)、right(对的、权利)同祖,那个词根 *reg- 就是"划 lines 管束、统治"。顺着"权生钱"这条路记,rich 的"富"和"丰富"两个意思一下就通了。
2、rich 不只形容人:rich soil 肥沃的地,rich food 太厚太腻的食物,a rich colour 浓烈的颜色,rich in vitamin 富含。
3、和 wealthy 的分工:rich 语气强,指大把钱和财产;wealthy 语气缓,偏指有钱又有地位。
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词族 · rich

词形变化与派生词,串起来记

中文词源

rich 富有的,丰富的

来自中古英语 riche,有权的,有钱的,来自古英语 rice,有权的,来自 PIE*reg,统治,管理, 词源同 regal,regulate.引申诸相关比喻义。词义的演变体现了权钱的关系。

英语词源

rich
rich: [OE] The original meaning of rich was ‘mighty, noble’. It goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *reg- ‘move in a straight line’, hence ‘direct’, hence ‘rule’, source of English right, Latin rēx ‘king’ (ancestor of English regal, royal, etc), and Latin regere ‘rule’ (ancestor of English regent, regiment, etc).

The Old Celtic equivalent of Latin rēx was rīx ‘king’. This was borrowed into prehistoric Germanic, where it subsequently evolved into German reich, Dutch rijk, Swedish rik, Danish rig, and English rich. (It was also taken over by the Romance languages, giving French riche, Italian ricco, etc.) The sense ‘mighty, noble’ survived in English into the late Middle Ages, but ‘wealthy’ had started to develop in Germanic, and eventually saw off ‘mighty’.

=> regal, right, royal
rich (adj.)
Old English rice "strong, powerful; great, mighty; of high rank," in later Old English "wealthy," from Proto-Germanic *rikijaz (cognates: Old Norse rikr, Swedish rik, Danish rig, Old Frisian rike "wealthy, mighty," Dutch rijk, Old High German rihhi "ruler, powerful, rich," German reich "rich," Gothic reiks "ruler, powerful, rich"), borrowed from a Celtic source akin to Gaulish *rix, Old Irish ri (genitive rig) "king," from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," hence, "direct, rule" (see rex).

The form of the word was influenced in Middle English by Old French riche "wealthy, magnificent, sumptuous," which is, with Spanish rico, Italian ricco, from Frankish *riki "powerful," or some other cognate Germanic source.

Old English also had a noun, rice "rule, reign, power, might; authority; empire." The evolution of the word reflects a connection between wealth and power in the ancient world. Of food and colors, from early 14c.; of sounds, from 1590s. Sense of "entertaining, amusing" is recorded from 1760. The noun meaning "the wealthy" was in Old English.

权威例句

1. " Richest " is the superlative of " rich " .
richest 是 rich 的最高级形式.
2. He hoped to strike it rich by investing in ginseng.
他希望通过投资人参发大财。
3. We gained a rich supply of data which would normally be inaccessible.
我们得到了通常难以获取的大量数据。
4. Liver and kidney are particularly rich in vitamin A.
肝脏和肾脏富含维生素A。
5. With nothing but his own talent, he made himself rich and famous.
他一无所有,仅靠自身才能就变得富有而出名。

词语辨析

【rich, wealthy】
这组词都有“富的,富裕的”的意思,其区别是:
rich: 普通用词,语气强烈,指拥有大量金钱及财产。
wealthy: 普通用词,语气不如rich强烈,多指经济上富裕、社会地位稳固,很有身份,即有钱有势。

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