symposium

• n. 討論會，座談會；專題論文集；酒宴，宴會

來自拉丁語 symposium,飲酒會，討論會，來自希臘語 symposion,飲酒會，討論會，來自 sym-, 一起，posis,喝，飲，來自 PIE*poi,喝，詞源同 poison,potion,potable.來自古希臘時期文人、 學士、哲學家、智者等歡聚一堂舉杯共飲，在歡快的氣氛中就某一話題進行熱烈探討的習俗。

symposium

symposium: [18] A symposium is etymologically a ‘get-together for a drink’. The word comes via Latin symposium from Greek sumpósion, a derivative of sumpótēs ‘drinking companion’. This was a compound noun formed from the prefix sun- ‘together’ and the base *pot- ‘drink’ (source of English poison, potion, etc). The Greeks favoured lubricating intellectual discussion with drink, and so the term sumpósion came to be used for a meeting which combined elements of party and intellectual interchange.
=> poison, potable, potion

symposium (n.)

1580s, "account of a gathering or party," from Latin symposium "drinking party, symposium," from Greek symposion "drinking party, convivial gathering of the educated" (related to sympotes "drinking companion"), from assimilated form of syn- "together" (see syn-) + posis "a drinking," from a stem of Aeolic ponen "to drink," cognate with Latin potare "to drink" (see potion).

The symposium usually followed a dinner, for the Greeks did not drink at meals. Its enjoyment was heightened by intellectual or agreeable conversation, by the introduction of music or dancers, and by other amusements. [Century Dictionary]

The sense of "a meeting on some subject" is from 1784. Reflecting the Greek fondness for mixing wine and intellectual discussion, the modern sense is especially from the word being used as a title for one of Plato's dialogues. Greek plural is symposia, and the leader of one is a symposiarch (c. 1600 in English). Related: Symposiac (adj.); symposial.

1. The symposium on AIDS research lasted two days.

艾滋病研究的報告會持續了兩天.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. What have you learned from the symposium?

你參加了這次科學討論會,有什麽體會?

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

3. He had been taking part in an international symposium on population.

他那時正參加一個有關人口問題的國際研討會。

來自辭典例句

4. Once I attended an international symposium on Dunhuang studies held at the Mogao Grottoes.

我去時,一次敦煌學國際學術討論會正在莫高窟舉行.

來自漢英文學 - 現代散文

5. The specialists and scholars present at the symposium come from all corners of the country.

出席研討會的專家學者們來自全國各地.

來自辭典例句