单词 | 格思里 |
释义 | 〔Guthrie〕American folk singer and composer of numerous songs about hardship and social injustice. His best-known composition is "This Land Is Your Land" (1940).格思里,伍德罗·威尔逊:(1912-1967) 美国民歌手,作了许多描写生活艰辛和社会不公的歌曲。他最有名的作品是“这片土地是你的土地”(作于1940年)〔ilk〕When one usesilk, as in the phrasemen of his ilk, one is using a word with an ancient pedigreeeven though the sense ofilk, "kind or sort,” is actually quite recent,having been recorded no earlier than the end of the 18th century.This sense grew out of an older use ofilk in the phrase of that ilk, meaning "of the same place, territorial designation, or name.” This phrase was used chiefly in names of landed families,Guthrie of that ilk meaning "Guthrie of Guthrie.” "Same" is the fundamental meaning of the word.The ancestors ofilk, Old Englishilca and Middle English ilke, were common words, usually appearing with such words asthe or that, but the word hardly survived the Middle Ages in those uses.当我们使用ilk 一词, 例如在词组men of his ilk 中那样, 我们实际上在使用一个历史悠久的词。不过ilk 这个词有“一种或一类”这个意思, 却是近期的事情,其最早的使用记录不超过18世纪末。过去ilk 这个词用于词组 of that ilk 之中,意为“相同地方的,相同封地的,相同名号的”,现代意义就是从这个意思演化而来。 这个词组主要用于拥有土地的家族的名称前面:Guthrie of that ilk 意指“格思里这个地方叫格思里的人”。 这个词的基本意义为“相同”。ilk 这个词的前身, 古英语的ilca 和中古英语的 ilke 都是常用词汇, 常常和the 或 that 等词一起使用, 不过这些词经过中世纪后都没能存在下来 |
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