cement

• vt. 鞏固，加強；用水泥塗；接合
• vi. 粘牢
• n. 水泥；接合劑

來自PIE*skei, 砍，劈，詞源同excise, scissor . -ment, 名詞後綴。原指劈下的小石塊，後指水泥。

cement

cement: [13] Latin caementa meant ‘stone chips used for making mortar’; etymologically, the notion behind it was of ‘hewing for a quarry’, for it was originally *caedmenta, a derivative of caedere ‘cut’ (from which English gets concise and decide). In due course the signification of the Latin word passed from ‘small broken stones’ to ‘powdered stone (used for mortar)’, and it was in this sense that it passed via Old French ciment into English.
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cement (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French ciment "cement, mortar, pitch," from Latin cæmenta "stone chips used for making mortar" (singular caementum), from caedere "to cut down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay" (see -cide). The sense evolution from "small broken stones" to "powdered stones used in construction" took place before the word reached English.

cement (v.)

c. 1400, from cement (n.) or Old French cimenter. Figurative use from c. 1600. Related: Cemented; cementing.

1. The gym teachers lined us up against the cement walls.

體育老師讓我們靠著水泥牆排好。

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2. In the old days, television was the cement of society.

過去，電視曾是團結社會的力量。

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3. A puppy stepped in the fresh cement.

一隻小狗踩在剛抹好的水泥麵上。

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4. The earth-moving trucks and cement mixers lay idle.

運土卡車和混凝土攪拌機閑置著。

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5. He had spent several hours mixing cement.

他花了幾個小時攪拌水泥。

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