dome

英 [d??m] 美[dom]

TEM4GRECET6IELTS考研中低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?domes;

1. 由dome聯(lián)想到home => 古代home是圓屋頂(dome).
2. home => dome.

dome 穹頂

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)domus, 家，詞源同domain. 引申詞義天主教教堂，穹頂。

dome: dome: [16] Dome originally meant ‘house’ in English – it was borrowed from Latin domus ‘house’ (source of English domestic). However, in other European languages the descendants of domus had come to signify more than a humble dwelling house, and its new meanings spread to English. The word increasingly encompassed stately mansions and important places of worship. Italian duomo and German dom mean ‘cathedral’, for instance (a sense adopted by English in the late 17th and early 18th centuries), and since a leading characteristic of Italian cathedrals is their cupola, the word was soon applied to this.
=> domestic
dome (n.): "round, vaulted roof," 1650s, from French dome (16c.), from Proven?al doma, from Greek doma "house, housetop" (especially a style of roof from the east), related to domos "house" (see domestic).

In the Middle Ages, German dom and Italian duomo were used for "cathedral" (on the notion of "God's house"), so English began to use this word in the sense "cupola," an architectural feature characteristic of Italian cathedrals. Used in U.S. also with reference to round summits of mountains.

1. The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.: 建筑工人在8根細(xì)柱上架起輕巧的混凝土穹頂。

3. A band of grey hair encircled his bald dome.: 他的禿頭四周長(zhǎng)著一圈灰白的頭發(fā).

4. A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.: 他的禿頭頂四周長(zhǎng)著一圈灰白的頭發(fā).

5. Are these pillars strong enough to keep up that dome?: 這幾根柱子撐得住那個(gè)圓形屋頂嗎 ?