sop: [OE] The word sop originally denoted a ‘piece of bread, cake, etc dipped into water, milk, wine, or similar liquid’. The modern metaphorical meaning ‘something given to gain favour, bribe’ did not emerge until the mid-17th century, in allusion to the piece of bread soaked in enticing honey but spiked with a soporific drug that was given to the guard dog Cerberus to put him to sleep so that Aeneas could visit the Underworld.
The word goes back ultimately to the same prehistoric Germanic base (*sup-) that produced English sip and sup ‘drink’, and also, via the Romance languages, soup and supper. The corresponding verb sop ‘dip in liquid’ now survives only in the present participial form sopping ‘soaking wet’ [19]. => sip, soup, sup, supper
sop (n.)
Old English sopp- "bread soaked in some liquid," (in soppcuppe "cup into which sops are put"), from Proto-Germanic *supp-, related to Old English verb suppan (see sup (v.2)), probably reinforced by Old French soupe (see soup (n.)). Meaning "something given to appease" is from 1660s, a reference to the sops given by the Sibyl to Cerberus in the "Aeneid."
sop (v.)
Old English soppian, from the source of sop (n.). Related: Sopped; sopping.
雙語例句
1. This is an obvious sop to the large Irish-American audience.
這明顯是討好廣大愛爾蘭裔美國觀眾的一種手段。
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2. The 82.5 % of patients with acquired SOP were accompanied with diplopia.
5%后天性sop者有明顯自覺復視.
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3. This approval process should be addressed in the firm's SOP.
批準過程應該在公司的SOP中有表述.
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4. Provide SOP electric training for electrician and relative person from other department.
對電工及其他部門人員進行電氣方面的SOP培訓.
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5. Directs and supervises production process to align with SOP.