tenement
英 ['tenəm(ə)nt]
美 ['tɛnəmənt]
助記提示
1. tenere "hold" => tene- + -ment.
2. => "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings).
3. => dwelling place, residence.
4. => large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants.
5. => tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city".
中文詞源
tenement 廉租公寓來自拉丁語 tenementum,領地，房子，所有物，來自 ten-,持有，握住，-ment,名詞後綴。後 用於指廉租公寓，可能是來自幽默用法。參照英語名言“風能進，雨能進，國王不能進”。
英文詞源
- tenement
- tenement: see tenant
- tenement (n.)
- c. 1300, "holding of immovable property" (such as land or buildings,) from Anglo-French (late 13c.), Old French tenement "fief, land, possessions, property" (12c.), from Medieval Latin tenementum "a holding, fief" (11c.), from Latin tenere "to hold" (see tenet). The meaning "dwelling place, residence" is attested from early 15c.; tenement house "house broken up into apartments, usually in a poor section of a city" is first recorded 1858, American English, from tenament in an earlier sense (especially in Scotland) "large house constructed to be let to a number of tenants" (1690s).
雙語例句
- 1. A complete tenement block was burnt to the ground.
- 整幢公寓大樓被付之一炬。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Nor was he the only one in that tenement yard.
- 大雜院裏的病人並不止於他一個.
來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子
- 3. But in the tenement yard there wasn't a single tree or flower.
- 但在這個大雜院裏,春並不先到枝頭上,這裏沒有一棵花木.
來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子
- 4. Tigress felt very smug in a tenement yard like this.
- 就是在個這樣的雜院裏,虎妞覺得很得意.
來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子
- 5. By June, the tenement courtyard was completely silent during the day.
- 到了六月, 大雜院裏在白天簡直沒什麽人聲.
來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子