column: [15] The notion underlying column is of ‘height, command, extremity’. It comes, via Old French colomne, from Latin columna ‘pillar’, which was probably a derivative of columen, culmen ‘top, summit’ (from which English also gets culminate). It goes back ultimately to a base *kol-, *kel-, distant ancestor of English excel and hill. The word’s application to vertical sections of printed matter dates from the 15th century, but its transference to that which is written (as in ‘write a weekly newspaper column’) is a 20thcentury development. => culminate, excel, hill
column (n.)
mid-15c., "vertical division of a page," also "a pillar, post," from Old French colombe (12c., Modern French colonne "column, pillar"), from Latin columna "pillar," collateral form of columen "top, summit," from PIE root *kel- (4) "to project, be prominent" (see hill). Sense of "matter written for a newspaper" dates from 1785.
雙語例句
1. She also writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement.
她也定期為《泰晤士報高等教育增刊》寫專欄文章。
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2. Word went out that a column of tanks was on its way.
有消息說一隊坦克已經出動了。
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3. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
我為他代寫《電訊報》每周的橄欖球專欄。
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4. We had stupidly been looking at the wrong column of figures.
我們稀裏糊塗，看串了數字欄。
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5. A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air.