dawn-daylight:上帝说要有光
【造词理据】源自PIE词根*agh-(白天day),A表牛、牛角,引申指放牧开始的时间,即黎明、破晓。首字母d源自德语,原来没有,这说明dawn是经日耳曼语进入英语的。
【例句】Then with a bag of toys and books we walked across the garden in the gray light of dawn.
我们提着一口袋玩具和书籍,在晨曦中穿过了花园。
【同根词】adays; Bundestag; daily; daisy; dawn; day; holiday; Reichstag; today。
【造词理据】见dawn。
【例句】Although it is now very frail, but I believe it will certainly be able to one day into the clouds.虽然它现在很孱弱,但我相信它有一天一定能够冲入云霄。
【同根词】见dawn。
【造词理据】复合词,由day+light组成。其中light表光线,象形,源自PIE词根
*leuk-(光线、光亮),L形表光线。
【例句】From afar to spend it, the grass it, as if in broad daylight to the exposed rock covered with a layer of beautiful clothes.
远远望去,花呀,草呀、好像给裸露在光天化日之下的山岩披上了一层漂亮衣衫。
【同根词】见dawn。light的同根词有:allumette; elucidate; illumination; illustration; lea; leukemia; leuko-; light (n.) "brightness, radiant energy;" lightning; limn; link (n.2) "torch of pitch, tow, etc.;" Lucifer; luciferase; luciferous; luculent; lumen; Luminal; luminary; luminate; luminescence; luminous; luna; lunacy; lunar; Lunarian; lunate; lunation; lunatic; lune; lunette; luni-; lucent; lucid; lucifugous; lucubrate; lucubration; luster; lustrum; lux; pellucid; sublunary; translucent.
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单词成就英语,英语照见未来