
tenement基本信息
读法:英 ["tenəm(ə)nt] 美 ["tɛnəmənt]
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英英释义
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中英词源
tenement 廉租公寓
来自拉丁语 tenementum,领地,房子,所有物,来自 ten-,持有,握住,-ment,名词后缀。后 用于指廉租公寓,可能是来自幽默用法。参照英语名言“风能进,雨能进,国王不能进”。
- tenement
- tenement: see tenant
- tenement (n.)
- c. 1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French tenement "fief, land, possessions, property" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenementum "a holding, fief" (11c.), from Latin tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from early 15c.; tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, American English, from tenament in an earlier sense (especially in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1690s).
词态变化
复数 tenements;
权威造句
- 1. A complete tenement block was burnt to the ground.
- 整幢公寓大楼被付之一炬。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Nor was he the only one in that tenement yard.
- 大杂院里的病人并不止于他一个.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- 3. But in the tenement yard there wasn"t a single tree or flower.
- 但在这个大杂院里,春并不先到枝头上,这里没有一棵花木.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
- 4. Tigress felt very smug in a tenement yard like this.
- 就是在个这样的杂院里,虎妞觉得很得意.
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- 5. By June, the tenement courtyard was completely silent during the day.
- 到了六月, 大杂院里在白天简直没什么人声.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
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记忆方法
1. tenere "hold" => tene- + -ment.
2. => "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings).
3. => dwelling place, residence.
4. => large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants.
5. => tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city".
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