horizon: [14] Etymologically, the horizon is simply a ‘line forming a boundary’. The word comes via Old French orizon and late Latin horīzōn from Greek horízōn, a derivative of the verb horīzein ‘divide, separate’ (source also of English aphorism [16], originally a ‘definition’). This in turn came from the noun hóros ‘boundary, limit’. Horizontal [16], which came either from French or directly from late Latin, originally meant simply ‘of the horizon’; it was not until the 17th century that it began to be used in its modern sense ‘flat, level’. => aphorism
horizon (n.)
late 14c., orisoun, from Old French orizon (14c., Modern French horizon), earlier orizonte (13c.), from Latin horizontem (nominative horizon), from Greek horizon kyklos "bounding circle," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary." The h- was restored 17c. in imitation of Latin. Old English used eaggemearc ("eye-mark") for "limit of view, horizon."
雙語例句
1. She stared dreamily out of the small window at the blue horizon.
她出神地看著小窗子外面的藍(lán)色地平線。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Johnson's smashing victory in 1964 changed the political horizon substantially.
1964年約翰遜的大獲成功給政界帶來了翻天覆地的變化。
來自柯林斯例句
3. At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey.
陸地在地平線處變成了一片淺灰。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon.