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标题[每日] tome (n) 大部书
时间Wed Feb 11 20:33:30 2009
Word of the Day (Wednesday February 11, 2009)
tome \tohm\, noun:
Pronunciation:
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a large, often scholarly, book
An unabridged dictionary is a
tome.
by 1519, from Middle French tome, from Latin tomus "section of a
book, tome," from Greek tomos "volume, section of a book,"
originally "section, piece cut off," from temein "to cut," from
Proto Indo-European *tom-/*tem- "to cut." Originally "a single
volume of a multi-volume work;" sense of "a large book" is
attested from 1573.
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1F：→ sovereignty :tom- 是 cut 的意思，这也是 Tom 这个名字的由来。 02/11 20:34