mass是什么意思

mass

英 [m?s] 美 [m?s]

n. 塊，團；群眾，民眾；大量，眾多；質(zhì)量
adj. 群眾的，民眾的；大規(guī)模的，集中的
vi. 聚集起來，聚集
vt. 使集合

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1. 音譯“彌撒”。

中文詞源

Mass 彌撒

來自拉丁語missa,解散，遣散，詞源同mission,emit.宗教詞義彌撒來自彌撒儀式后的解散語”Ite,missa est”,即走吧，解散了，ite,走，離開，詞源同exit,missa,解散，詞源同emit,est,是，詞源同is,essence.

mass 團，塊，堆，物質(zhì)質(zhì)量

來自拉丁語massa,大塊，面團，來自PIE*mag,揉，捏，詞源同make,massage.引申詞義團，塊，堆，以及用于物理學術(shù)語物質(zhì)質(zhì)量，原子質(zhì)量等。

英文詞源

mass: mass: English has two distinct words mass. The one meaning ‘Eucharist’ [OE] comes from late Latin missa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of mittere ‘send’ (source of English admit, commit, dismiss, mission, etc) possibly arising from Ite, missa est ‘Go, it is the dismissal’, the last words of the Latin Eucharist service. Mass ‘a(chǎn)mount of matter’ [14] comes via Old French masse and Latin massa from Greek maza ‘barley cake’, hence ‘lump, mass’.

The derivative massive [15] goes back ultimately to Vulgar Latin *massīceus. A possible relative is massage [19], a borrowing from French. It was a derivative of masser ‘massage’, which may have been acquired from Portuguese amassar ‘knead’, a verb based on massa ‘mass, dough’.
=> admit, commit, dismiss, mission, transmit; massage, massive
mass (v.): "to gather in a mass" (intransitive), 1560s, from mass (n.1) or from French masser. Transitive sense by c. 1600. Related: Massed; massing.
mass (n.1): "lump, quantity, size," late 14c., from Old French masse "lump, heap, pile; crowd, large amount; ingot, bar" (11c.), and directly from Latin massa "kneaded dough, lump, that which adheres together like dough," probably from Greek maza "barley cake, lump, mass, ball," related to massein "to knead," from PIE root *mag- "to knead" (source of Lithuanian minkyti "to knead," see macerate). Sense extended in English 1580s to "a large quantity, amount, or number." Strict sense in physics is from 1704.

As an adjective from 1733, first attested in mass meeting in American English. mass culture is from 1916 in sociology (earlier in biology); mass hysteria is from 1914; mass media is from 1923; mass movement is from 1897; mass production is from 1920; mass grave is from 1918; mass murder from 1880.
mass (n.2): "Eucharistic service," Old English m?sse, from Vulgar Latin *messa "eucharistic service," literally "dismissal," from Late Latin missa "dismissal," fem. past participle of mittere "to let go, send" (see mission); probably so called from the concluding words of the service, Ite, missa est, "Go, (the prayer) has been sent," or "Go, it is the dismissal." Sometimes glossed in Old English as sendnes "send-ness."

雙語例句

1. On his desk is a mass of books and papers.: 他的書桌上有大堆的書籍和文件。

2. In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.: 春天，草地上開滿了黃水仙。

3. Pope John Paul celebrated mass today in a city in central Poland.: 教皇保羅二世今天在波蘭中部的一個城市主持了彌撒。

4. Only with mass direct action will we obtain such change.: 只有采取大規(guī)模直接行動，我們才會取得這樣的改變。

5. The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population.: 1939至1945年間的世界大戰(zhàn)使大多數(shù)民眾卷入其中。

mass是什么意思

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