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释义 | 〔accolade〕Those who have received so many accolades that they have no fear of getting it in the neck may have to reconsider their situation.In tracingaccolade back to its Latin origins, we find that it was formed from the prefixad-, "to, on,” and the noun collum, "neck,” which may bring the wordcollar to mind. From these elements came the Vulgar Latin word.accollāre, which, in turn, was the source of Frenchaccolade, "an embrace.” An embrace was originally given to a knight when dubbing him,a fact that accounts foraccolade having the technical sense "ceremonial bestowal of knighthood,” the sense in which the word is first recorded in English in 1623.那些接受了如此多的拥吻以致不怕再在颈部接受的人,也许应考虑一下他们所处状况。追溯accolade 的拉丁文辞源, 我们可以发现它是由前缀ad- “到在…之上”之意和名词 collum, “颈部”之意, 这词使我们想起collar 一词。 从这些成分组成俗拉丁词accollare, 而这词反过来又成为法语词accolade, “拥抱”的词源。 原来是指骑士授予时所给予的拥抱,这事实可解释accolade 一词带“授予骑士称号的典礼”的意义, 这个词带这种意义在英语中是在1623年第一次使用 |
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