course-cousin：没有围墙不能叫庭院
【造词理据】源自PIE词根*kers-（跑run）。K为C的同音通转，C表骆驼，引申指行走、奔跑、运输，在这里指过程、一道菜、课程、航向。
【例句】
We don't have to be funny, but the attempt tells students that we're trying to make the course more interesting.
我们不必很搞笑，但是这样的尝试让学生觉得我们在试着让课程更有趣。
【同根词】car; career; cargo; caricature; cark; carpenter; carriage; carrier; carry; charabanc; charette; charge; chariot; concourse; concur; concurrent; corral; corridor; corsair; courant; courier; course; currency; current; curriculum; cursive; cursor; cursory; discharge; discourse; encharge; excursion; hussar; incur; intercourse; kraal; miscarry; occur; precursor; recourse; recur; succor.
【造词理据】co-是com-的截短，表一起（with、together），urt源自PIE词根*gher-（包围、抓握）。象形，G与C同源通转，表包围，在这里包围起来的院子、庭院、法院、法庭等。gh脱落。
【例句】
The court said the wedding photos were owned by both Zhang and his wife, and she had the right to damage the photos after their divorce.
法院认为婚照由夫妻共同拥有，妻子在离婚后有权利损毁这些照片。
【同根词】Asgard; carol; choir; choral; chorale; choric; chorister; chorus; cohort; cortege; court; courteous; courtesan; courtesy; courtier; curtilage; curtsy; garden; garth; gird; girdle; girt; girth; -grad; hangar; Hilda; Hildegard; Hortense; horticulture; jardiniere; kindergarten; Midgard; orchard; Terpsichore; Utgard; yard (n.1) "patch of ground around a house."
【造词理据】复合词，由court+yard组成。均见court。
【例句】
The green interior courtyard invites you to enjoy your breakfast or to relax aftera city tour or a business meeting.
充满绿意的内部庭院是享用早餐或是在城市游览、洽商之后休闲放松的好地方。
【同根词】均见court。
【造词理据】cou-是com-的截短，表一起，词根sin原指母亲的姐妹的儿子（son）。S表牙齿，引申指切分，在这里生育，特指生下儿子。cousin指表兄弟，后泛指同辈表亲或堂亲。
【例句】
I do not know whether it were sorrow for him, but his cousin put on as sad a countenance as himself, and returned to her father.
我不知道是不是为他难过，可是他的表姐跟他一样地哭丧着脸，回到她父亲身边。
【同根词】son、sister、sorority、cousin
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单词成就英语，英语照见未来