quarter基本信息
读法：英 ["kwɔːtə] 美 ["kwɔrtɚ]
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英英释义
Noun:
"a quarter after 4 o"clock"
中英词源
quarter 四分之一，一刻钟，季度，营房，住宿区
来自拉丁语quartus,四分之一，词源同four,quadrille.引申词义季度，刻钟。后用于指城区的部分，营房，住宿区等。WWw.WENtIYI.COm
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- quarter: [13] Quarter is one of a large family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin quattuor ‘four’ and its relatives. Direct descendants of quattuor itself are actually fairly few – among them quatrain [16] and quatrefoil [15] (both via Old French). But its ordinal form quārtus ‘fourth’ has been most prolific: English is indebted to it for quart [14], quarter (via the Latin derivative quartārius ‘fourth part’), quartet [18], and quarto [16].
In compounds quattuor assumed the form quadr-, which has given English quadrangle [15] (and its abbreviation quad [19]), quadrant [14], quadratic [17], quadrille [18], quadruped [17], quadruplet [18] (also abbreviated to quad [19]), quarantine, quarrel ‘arrow’, not to mention the more heavily disguised cadre [19], carfax [14] (which means etymologically ‘four-forked’), squad, and square.
And the derivative quater ‘four times’ has contributed carillon [18] (etymologically a peal of ‘four’ bells), quaternary [15], and quire of paper [15] (etymologically a set of ‘four’ sheets of paper).
=> cadre, carfax, carillon, quad, quarrel, quarry, quire, squad, square - quarter (n.)
- c. 1300, "one-fourth of anything; one of four parts or divisions of a thing;" often in reference to the four parts into which a slaughtered animal is cut, from Old French quartier, cartier (12c.), from Latin quartarius "fourth part," from quartus "fourth" (see quart). One of the earliest dated references in English is to "parts of the body as dismembered during execution" (c. 1300).
Used of the phases of the moon from early 15c. The use of quarter of an hour is attested from mid-15c. In Middle English quarter also meant "one of the four divisions of a 12-hour night" (late 14c.), and the quarter of the night meant "nine o"clock p.m." (early 14c.).
From late 14c. as "one of the four quadrants of the heavens;" hence, from the notion of the winds, "a side, a direction" (c. 1400). In heraldry from mid-14c. as "one of the four divisions of a shield or coat of arms." The word"s connection with "four" loosened in Middle English and by 15c. expressions such as six-quartered for "six-sided" are found. Meaning "region, locality, area, place" is from c. 1400. Meaning "portion of a town" (identified by the class or race of people who live there) is first attested 1520s. For military sense, see quarters. As a period of time in a football game, from 1911. Quarter horse, bred strong for racing on quarter-mile tracks, first recorded 1834.
The coin (one fourth of a dollar) is peculiar to U.S., first recorded 1783. But quarter could mean "a farthing" in Middle English (late 14c.), and compare British quadrant "a farthing" (c. 1600), and classical Latin quadrans, the name of a coin worth a quarter of an as (the basic unit of Roman currency).
Quarter days (mid-15c.), designated as days when rents were paid and contracts and leases began or expired, were, in England, Lady day (March 25), Midsummer day (June 24), Michaelmas day (Sept. 29), and Christmas day (Dec. 25); in Scotland, keeping closer to the pagan Celtic calendar, they were Candlemas (Feb. 2), Whitsunday (May 15), Lammas (Aug. 1), and Martinmas (Nov. 11). Quarter in the sense "period of three months; one of the four divisions of a year" is recorded from late 14c. - quarter (v.)
- "to cut in quarters, divide into four parts," mid-14c., from quarter (n.). Specifically as the word for a form of criminal punishment from late 14c. (Old English had slitcwealm "death by rending"). Related: Quartered; quartering. The meaning "to put up soldiers" is recorded from 1590s (see quarters).
词态变化
复数 quarters;
第三人称单数 quarters;
过去式 quartered;
过去分词 quartered;
现在分词 quartering;
权威造句
- 1. This little ball of gold weighs a quarter of an ounce.
- 这个小金球重0.25盎司。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He recovered from a 4-2 deficit to reach the quarter-finals.
- 他在2比4落后的情况下实现逆转闯进1/4决赛。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The time was recorded at a quarter after five.
- 时间显示是5点15分。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The sides must battle again for a quarter-final place on December 16.
- 双方将在12月16日再次交锋以争夺进入四分之一决赛的席位。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. His life was saved by a quarter-inch-thick bullet-proof steel screen.
- 多亏一块1/4英寸厚的防弹钢板，他才捡了条命。
来自柯林斯例句
近反义词
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单词分析
这些名词均有“地区”之意。district多指由政府等机构出于行政管理等目的而明确划分的地区。
region普通用词，常指地球上、大气中具有自然分界线的区域，特指按照气候、人体或其他特征鲜明、自成一体的地区。
area普通用词，指整体中较大的，界线不分明的一部分。
section普通用词，指城市、国家或天然界线形成的地区。
zone科技用词，指圆形或弧形地带，尤指地图上按温度划分的五个地带。用作一般意义时，也可指具有某种特征的其它地区。
belt从本义“带，带状物”引申而指任何广阔的长条地带，也可指种植某种作物的地区。
quarter指城市里具有相同性质或独特风味的地区，比section范围小，但划分更精确。
neighbourhood指比section的划定更清楚，范围更小。具体指城市中的住宅区，也可指附近一带。
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