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elephant

英 ['el?f(?)nt]美['?l?f?nt]
  • n. 象;大號圖畫紙

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詞態變化


復數:?elephants;

中文詞源


elephant

來自拉丁語elephantus,象。

英文詞源


elephant
elephant: [13] Elephants were named from their tusks. Greek eléphās (probably a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language) meant originally ‘ivory’ (hence chryselephantine ‘of gold and ivory’ [19]). Only later did it come to denote the animal itself, and it passed in this sense into Latin as elephantus. By post-classical times this had become *olifantus, and it is a measure of the unfamiliarity of the beast in northern Europe in the first millenium AD that when Old English acquired the word, as olfend, it was used for the ‘camel’.

Old French also had olifant (referring to the ‘elephant’ this time) and passed it on to English as olifaunt. It was not until the 14th century that, under the influence of the classical Latin form, this began to change to elephant. In the 16th and 17th centuries there was a learned revival of the sense ‘ivory’: Alexander Pope, for instance, in his translation of the Odyssey 1725, refers to ‘the handle … with steel and polish’d elephant adorn’d’.

The notion of the white elephant as ‘something unwanted’ arose apparently from the practice of the kings of Siam presenting courtiers who had incurred their displeasure with real white elephants, the cost of whose proper upkeep was ruinously high.

elephant (n.)
c. 1300, olyfaunt, from Old French olifant (12c., Modern French éléphant), from Latin elephantus, from Greek elephas (genitive elephantos) "elephant; ivory," probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely via Phoenician (compare Hamitic elu "elephant," source of the word for it in many Semitic languages, or possibly from Sanskrit ibhah "elephant").

Re-spelled after 1550 on Latin model. Cognate with the common term for the animal in Romanic and Germanic; Slavic words (for example Polish slon', Russian slonu are from a different word. Old English had it as elpend, and compare elpendban, elpentoe "ivory," but a confusion of exotic animals led to olfend "camel."

As an emblem of the Republican Party in U.S. politics, 1860. To see the elephant "be acquainted with life, gain knowledge by experience" is an American English colloquialism from 1835. The elephant joke was popular 1960s-70s.

雙語例句


1. The pavilion has become a £4 million steel and glass white elephant.
這個耗資400萬英鎊、用鋼與玻璃所構筑起的亭子已經成了一個華而不實的擺設。

來自柯林斯例句

2. His tour de force is an elephant sculpture.
他的精心之作是一件大象雕塑。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
這座新辦公大樓成了昂貴的擺設。

來自《權威詞典》

4. The hunter was trampled to death by a wild elephant.
那獵人被一頭野象踩死了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The animal in the picture was a female elephant.
照片上的動物是頭母象.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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