exchequer是什么意思_exchequer怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

exchequer: exchequer: [13] Etymologically, an exchequer is something that has ‘checks’ or squares on it, and indeed the earliest use of the word in English was for ‘chessboard’. It came via Anglo- Norman escheker from medieval Latin scaccārium ‘chessboard’, a derivative of Vulgar Latin scaccus ‘check’ (source of English check ‘verify’). In the early Middle Ages the office of state, in both England and Normandy, which dealt with the collection and management of the royal revenue, used a table with a chequered cloth on it as a sort of rudimentary adding machine, counters being placed on various squares as an aid to calculation.

And by the 14th century it had become the custom to refer to this department, from its chessboard-like table cloth, as the exchequer (Robert Mannyng, for instance, in his Chronicle 1331, records that ‘to Berwick came the king’s exchequer, Sir Hugh of Cressyngham he was chancellor, Walter of Admundesham he was treasurer’). Exchequer was the source of chequer [13], which by further reduction produced check ‘pattern of squares’.
=> check, chess
exchequer (n.): c. 1300, from Anglo-French escheker "a chessboard," from Old French eschequier, from Medieval Latin scaccarium "chess board" (see check (n.1); also see checker (n.2)). Government financial sense began under the Norman kings of England and refers to a cloth divided in squares that covered a table on which accounts of revenue were reckoned with counters, and which apparently reminded people of a chess board. Respelled with an -x- based on the mistaken belief that it originally was a Latin ex- word.

词态变化

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权威造句

1. This resulted in a considerable loss to the exchequer.: 这使国库遭受了重大损失。

2. The Chancellor of Exchequer will present his budget to Parliament tomorrow.: 财政大臣明天将向议会提出预算案.

3. The Chancellor of the Exchequer deals with taxes.: 财政大臣负责税务.

4. The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.: 财政大臣说经济即将复苏。

5. He will always be remembered as one of the great Chancellors of the Exchequer.: 作为最伟大的财政大臣之一他将永远被铭记。

近反义词

Chancellor of the Exchequer (英国)财政大臣...

exchequer equalization account 财政收支平衡帐户...

court of Exchequer 财务法院,经济法庭...

exchequer treasury 财政部债券

exchequer bill 国库券

account of the exchequer 国库帐

相似短语

chancellor of the exchequer 【法】财政大臣

Chancellor of the Exchequer n. （英国）财政大臣

exchequer bills 【法】国库券

court of exchequer 经济法庭，经济法庭

small exchequer 小金库

court of Exchequer 财务法院，经济法庭

Exchequer bond 英国财政部行的公债

exchequer treasury 财政部债券

exchequer bonds 国库债券为英国用语，指由皇家政府发行，或由其保证而由公营事业发行的债券，又称为金边证券(*gilt-edged securities)。

exchequer bill 【经】国库等

单词分析

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记忆方法

Exchequer: 一国之财库----国库，财源。

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