alphabet
英 ['?lf?bet]
美 ['?lf?'b?t]
- n. 字母表，字母系統(tǒng)；入門(mén)，初步
中文詞源
alphabet 字母表alpha，希臘語(yǔ)第一個(gè)字母，同A.bet, 希臘語(yǔ)第二個(gè)字母，同B.
英文詞源
- alphabet
- alphabet: [15] This word is based on the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta, standing for the whole. It derives from Greek alphabētos, via Latin alphabētum. When it first came into English, purists tried to insist that it should be reserved for the Greek alphabet, and that the English alphabet should be referred to by the term ABC (which had been lexicalized in various forms, such as abece, apece, and absee, since the late 13th century), but, like most such prescriptive demands, this was a waste of breath and ink.
- alphabet (n.)
- 1570s, from Late Latin alphabetum (Tertullian), from Greek alphabetos, from alpha + beta. Alphabet soup first attested 1907. Words for it in Old English included st?fr?w, literally "row of letters," st?frof "array of letters."
It was a wise though a lazy cleric whom Luther mentions in his "Table Talk,"--the monk who, instead of reciting his breviary, used to run over the alphabet and then say, "O my God, take this alphabet, and put it together how you will." [William S. Walsh, "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities," 1892]
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The alphabet might be more rational if all the vowels came first.
- 如果把所有的元音列在前面，字母表可能會(huì)更為合理一些。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. The modern Russian alphabet has 31 letters.
- 現(xiàn)代俄語(yǔ)字母表有31個(gè)字母。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Q comes between P and R in the English alphabet.
- 英語(yǔ)字母表中，Q在P和R之間。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. the International Phonetic Alphabet
- 國(guó)際音標(biāo)
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 5. Anybody who compiles a dictionary has to know his alphabet backwards.
- 無(wú)論誰(shuí)編字典都得把字母表記得熟透.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》