alsoran的词源

英文词源

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chest: [OE] Chest comes ultimately from Greek kístē ‘box, basket’. In Latin this became cista (source of English cistern [13]). In prehistoric times the word was borrowed into Germanic as *kistā, which was the source of Old English cest. This still meant ‘box’, a sense which continued in isolation until the 16th century, when it was first applied to the ‘thorax’ – the basis of the metaphor presumably being that the ribs enclose the heart and lungs like a box. It has since replaced breast as the main term for the concept.
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中文词源

alsoran（落选者）：赛马比赛中未获名次的参赛马

英语单词alsoran来自赛马比赛的术语，是also ran的缩写。以前报纸在报道赛马比赛的结果时，在列出获得名次的前三名赛马名字后，往往会在also ran后面列出未获名次的其他赛马的名字。also ran的本意是“参加比赛的还有”，后来，人们将其缩写为一个单词，用来表示参加比赛但未获名次的参赛选手，往往用来比喻某种比赛、竞选的落选者。

alsoran：[ælsə'ræn]n.失败者，落选者，落选的马

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