词族 · trivium
词形变化
英语词源
- trivium (n.)
- 1804, from Medieval Latin trivium (9c.) "grammar, rhetoric, and logic," the first three of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, considered initiatory and foundational to the other four: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. From Latin trivium, in classical Latin "place where three roads meet; a frequented place; public street, highway" (see trivial).
权威例句
- 1. The curriculum was divided into the qadrivium and the trivium.
- 课程分为四大科和三学科.
- 2. The trivium consisted of grammar, logic and rhetoric, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.
- 三门科目由文法 、 逻辑和修辞学组成;四门科目由算术 、 几何 、 天文和音乐组成.
- 3. The trivium is concerned with the study of language.
- 三科是关于语言的学习.