英文词源
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- castor
- castor: There are two distinct words castor in English. The older originally meant ‘beaver’ [14], and was early used with reference to a bitter pungent substance secreted by glands near the beaver’s anus, employed in medicine and perfumery. The term castor oil [18] probably comes from the use of this oil, derived from the seed of a tropical plant, as a substitute for castor in medicine.
The more recent castor [17] is simply a derivative of the verb cast; it was originally (and still often is) spelled caster. Its use for sprinkling or ‘throwing’ sugar is obvious (the term castor sugar dates back to the mid 19th century), but its application to a ‘small swivelling wheel’ is less immediately clear: it comes from a now obsolete sense of the verb, mainly nautical, ‘veer, turn’: ‘Prepare for casting to port’, George Nares, Seamanship 1882.
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中文词源
前缀ad-, 去，往。词根lib, 爱，高兴，词源同love.指一时兴起时做的事情，临时的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：adlib 词源，adlib 含义。
; adlib 即兴地,即兴演出
adlib系拉丁语adlibitum之缩略，本义为according to pleasure(随意)。该词既可用作副词，表示“即兴地”，用作形容词,表示“即兴的"，又可用作动词，表示“即兴演出”或“即兴讲话”等。
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