insult
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sal-在詞源上的意思是“鹽”，古時候鹽曾經被用作貨幣，所以有salary一詞，就是以鹽作為薪水。
英語中的成語“worth one's salt" 就是”稱職”，意思是對得起自己的工資。
此外，鹽是從海里來的，sal-也指海水.
表示“跳”的那個sal-來自sul-,如result就是“跳回來”，引申為“反饋，反彈回來”，所以就是“結果”。
可謂就是“種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆”。
同樣，consult就是“跳到一起”，所謂的“協商，咨詢”；
insult的意思是“朝里撲，跳進去”，后來引申為“刺激，侮辱”。
這些在詞源上都是有據可查的。
中文詞源
insult 侮辱，冒犯in-,進入，使，-sul,跳，詞salient,salmon.即跳起來打，后用于指語言侮辱，侵犯，冒犯。
英文詞源
- insult
- insult: [16] The -sult of insult comes from a word that meant ‘jump’. Its source was Latin insultāre ‘jump on’, a compound verb based on saltāre ‘jump’. This was a derivative of salīre ‘jump’, source in one way or another of English assail, assault, desultory, salacious, and salient. Old French took insultāre over as insulter and used it for ‘triumph over in an arrogant way’. This was how the word was originally used in English, but at the beginning of the 17th century the now familiar sense ‘abuse’ (which had actually developed first in the Latin verb) was introduced.
=> assail, assault, desultory, salacious, salient - insult (v.)
- 1560s, "triumph over in an arrogant way," from Middle French insulter (14c.) and directly from Latin insultare "to assail, to leap upon" (already used by Cicero in sense of "insult, scoff at, revile"), frequentative of insilire "leap at or upon," from in- "on, at" (see in- (2)) + salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Sense of "to verbally abuse, affront, assail with disrespect" is from 1610s. Related: Insulted; insulting.
- insult (n.)
- c. 1600 in the sense of "attack;" 1670s as "an act of insulting," from Middle French insult (14c.) or directly from Late Latin insultus, from insilire (see insult (v.)). To add insult to injury translates Latin injuriae contumeliam addere.
雙語例句
- 1. She spat the name out like an insult.
- 她像罵人似的說出了那個名字。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Forgive me, I don't mean to insult you.
- 請原諒，我并非有意侮辱你。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He felt the smart of their insult for many days.
- 他受到他們的侮辱后好多天都感到難受.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher.
- 校長譴責對老師不敬的學生.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. He was still steaming over the insult he had received.
- 他仍在為他所受的侮辱發怒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》