comma
英['k?m?]
美['kɑm?]
- n. 逗號；停頓
詞態變化
復數:?commas;
中文詞源
comma 逗號
來自PIE*kop，砍，劈，進一步來自*skep, 砍，劈，詞源同ship, shape. 原指劈開的一個分枝。
英文詞源
- comma
- comma: [16] Greek kómma meant literally ‘piece cut off, segment’. It derived from the verb kóptein ‘cut’, relatives of which include Russian kopje ‘lance’, source of the coin-name kopeck, and probably English capon. Kómma came to be applied metaphorically, as a technical term in prosody, to a small piece of a sentence, a ‘short clause’, a sense which it retained when it reached English via Latin comma. It was not long before, like colon, it was applied to the punctuation mark signifying the end of such a clause.
=> capon, kopeck - comma (n.)
- 1520s as a Latin word, nativized by 1590s, from Latin comma "short phrase," from Greek komma "clause in a sentence," literally "piece which is cut off," from koptein "to cut off," from PIE root *kop- "to beat, strike" (see hatchet (n.)). Like colon (n.1) and period, originally a Greek rhetorical term for a part of a sentence, and like them it has been transferred to the punctuation mark that identifies it.
雙語例句
- 1. Not a comma was left out.
- 一個逗號也沒漏掉.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. The two clauses are separated by a comma.
- 這兩個分句由一個逗號分開.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. Yet still the comma gets no respect.
- 盡管如此,逗號仍然不受人尊重.
來自名作英譯部分
- 4. He seemed to query every damn comma.
- 他簡直對每一個逗點都不輕易放過.
來自辭典例句
- 5. But the same could be said -- could it not? -- of the humble comma.
- 不過這話用在小小的逗號上, 何嘗不是如此?
來自名作英譯部分