etymology
英 [ˌetɪˈmɒlədʒi]
美 [ˌetɪˈmɑːlədʒi]
n. 词源学; 词源
复数：etymologies
BNC.24993 / COCA.23015
牛津词典
noun
- 词源学
the study of the origin and history of words and their meanings - 词源
the origin and history of a particular word
柯林斯词典
- 词源学
Etymologyis the study of the origins and historical development of words. - 词源
Theetymologyof a particular word is its history.
英英释义
noun
- the study of the sources and development of words
- a history of a word
双语例句
- At university she developed an interest in etymology.
在大学时她对词源学产生了兴趣。 - A Research into the Etymology and Its Original Acceptation of Sport; Feliks looked up from Kropotkin's pamphlet.
关于斯泡特（SPORT）语源和早期词义的探讨费利克斯在一本克鲁泡特金的小册子上查看着。 - Etymology: over England; from one land to another; into Ireland.
词源学：越过英格兰，从一个陆地到另一个陆地，爱尔兰。 - So that he could explain the etymology of the words he included.
因此他可以解释所包含词汇的语源。 - The history and evolution of Chinese characters is such a messy accretion of historical sediment and false cognates that even scholars of Chinese take its etymology with a grain of salt.
中国汉字的历史和变革掺杂了太多历史的沉淀和似是而非的同源词汇，就算是中国的学者对本国的词源学研究也还是沧海一粟。 - The word "monsoon" has an ancient and debatable etymology which many authorities have already tried to trace.
季风是一古老而有争议的名词，许多权威都曾努力探索过。 - On the Theoretical Construction of the Etymology Teaching Method in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language Semantic-phonetic composition is one way of word building in Chinese, but Chinese is not a phonetic language.
对外汉语汉字字源教学法理论建构论略形声是汉字的一种造字法，但汉字并不因此以表音见长。 - The origin of OK became the Holy Grail of etymology.
OK的出典成了词源学梦寐以求的圣杯。 - From the perspective of etymology and word change, this article aims at making a probe into the influence of business development on the generalization of proper nouns.
它们的背后记录着商业文明的痕迹，本文从词源学和词义变化的角度，结合世界商业发展的历史，探讨了商业贸易的发展对专有名词普通化的影响和意义。 - Estrangement is a abundant meanings and disputable concept on the investigation of etymology.
从词源学考证，异化是一个含义丰富且有争议的概念。