column

英 ['k?l?m] 美['kɑl?m]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中頻詞核心詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?columns;

column 柱子，列

來自PIE*kel, 伸出，柱子，詞源同hill. -mn, 名詞后綴。

column: column: [15] The notion underlying column is of ‘height, command, extremity’. It comes, via Old French colomne, from Latin columna ‘pillar’, which was probably a derivative of columen, culmen ‘top, summit’ (from which English also gets culminate). It goes back ultimately to a base *kol-, *kel-, distant ancestor of English excel and hill. The word’s application to vertical sections of printed matter dates from the 15th century, but its transference to that which is written (as in ‘write a weekly newspaper column’) is a 20thcentury development.
=> culminate, excel, hill
column (n.): mid-15c., "vertical division of a page," also "a pillar, post," from Old French colombe (12c., Modern French colonne "column, pillar"), from Latin columna "pillar," collateral form of columen "top, summit," from PIE root *kel- (4) "to project, be prominent" (see hill). Sense of "matter written for a newspaper" dates from 1785.

1. She also writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement.: 她也定期為《泰晤士報高等教育增刊》寫專欄文章。

2. Word went out that a column of tanks was on its way.: 有消息說一隊坦克已經(jīng)出動了。

3. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.: 我為他代寫《電訊報》每周的橄欖球?qū)凇?/dd>
來自柯林斯例句

4. We had stupidly been looking at the wrong column of figures.: 我們稀里糊涂，看串了數(shù)字欄。