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the writing on the wall词源

发布于:2025-07-05 19:02浏览量:103文/优校网

英文词源

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merchant: [13] Latin merx denoted ‘goods for sale’. From it was derived the verb mercārī ‘trade’ (whose past participle was the source of English market). Mercārī was adapted in Vulgar Latin to mercātāre, whose present participle mercātāns produced the Old French noun marcheant ‘trader’, source of English merchant. Merchandise [13] comes from a derivative of marcheant; and other English descendants of Latin merx are commerce and mercury.
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中文词源

the writing on the wall:不祥之兆,凶兆,厄运降临的预兆

来自《旧约·但以理书》,古巴比伦国王Belshazzar(伯沙撒)在宫殿里设宴纵饮时,忽然看到一个神秘的手指在王宫墙上写看不懂的文字,后来,国王叫来被虏的囚徒犹太预言家Daniel(但以理)才搞明白,墙上的文字表示“大难临头”。如预言所示,伯沙撒当夜被杀,新国王由六十二岁的玛代人大利乌(Darius the Median)继任。 正是由于这个典故,the finger on the wall(墙上的手指)或the writing on the wall(墙上的文字)常和动词see或read连用,用来形容“不祥之兆”。

例句:The official saw the writing on the wall and fled the country.(这个官员预感到自己将要大难临头,立即逃到了国外。)

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