1.词源,语源
2.词源[语源]学
1.the origin and development of a particular word; the study of the origins and development of words
1.With this etymology something sublime is "up to the top of the door. "
有了这个词源，sublime的意思就成了“到达门的顶端”。
2.The etymology of the word harbinger is tied up in that "forerunner" meaning.
harbinger这个词的来源和“先行者”是联系在一起的。
3.Although there isn't authoritative evidence to back this story up the etymology of pretzel tends to support at least part of the story.
尽管人们并没有权威的证据来证实这个故事，但至少它还是部分得到了pretzel词源的支持。
4.This prompted me to look up the etymology of the word swear and I'll get to that in a moment.
这起小事件促使我去查询swear（咒骂）这个词的词根，一会儿就来讨论这个问题。
5.At first recruits were only military and the main reason the military needed recruits is actually tied up in the word's etymology.
最初，新丁（recruits）只是针对军队而言的，而军队需要新兵的主要原因是与这个词的词源紧密联系在一起的。
6.The explanation of these two terms in The Great Chinese Dictionary and Chinese Etymology Dictionary needs to be further investigated.
对于这两个词，《汉语大词典》和《辞源》的解释是值得商榷的。
7.Now that you've read through all of that here's the much simplified etymology of the word simple.
现在你已经读完了，下面说单词simple的更简化的词源。
8.I'll save the worst till last and before I tell you I'll just touch on the word butter and its etymology.
最刺激的就留到最后说吧。让我先来告诉你“butter”这个词和它的词源。
9.I'm also really into the fact that the etymology of seersucker came from my own country, India (thank you Wikipedia).
而且我知道，这种泡泡纱的材质最初是在我的家乡印度发现的（谢谢基维百科）。
10.With an etymology that boils down to "without an owner" one might think such a name would encourage car theft.
由于这个词有“没有主人”的意味，人们可以将这个名字理解为鼓励偷车。