记忆方法
1. monetary => mint.
中文词源
mint 薄荷
来自拉丁文menta,薄荷，来自希腊语Minthe,薄荷仙子，在古希腊神话中，原为泉水仙子，因引诱冥王Hades,被冥后Persephone变成了薄荷树。
mint 铸造，铸币，创造来自拉丁文moneta,铸币，硬币，词源同money,monetary.引申词义创造或发明。
英语词源
- mint
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mint: [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced Old English mynet. This denoted ‘coin’ (as its modern German relative münze still does), and it was not until the 15th century that the modern sense ‘place where money is made’ emerged. Mint the plant originated in Greek mínthē, and reached English via Latin mentha (source of menthol [19], a German coinage) and prehistoric West Germanic *minta.
=> money; menthol - mint (n.1)
- aromatic herb, Old English minte (8c.), from West Germanic *minta (cognates: Old Saxon minta, Middle Dutch mente, Old High German minza, German Minze), a borrowing from Latin menta, mentha "mint," from Greek minthe, personified as a nymph transformed into an herb by Proserpine, probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.
- mint (n.2)
- place where money is coined, early 15c., from Old English mynet "coin, coinage, money" (8c.), from West Germanic *munita (cognates: Old Saxon munita, Old Frisian menote, Middle Dutch munte, Old High German munizza, German münze), from Latin moneta "mint" (see money). Earlier word for "place where money is coined" was minter (early 12c.). General sense of "a vast sum of money" is from 1650s.
- mint (v.)
- "to stamp metal to make coins," 1540s, from mint (n.2). Related: Minted; minting. Minter "one who stamps coins to create money" is from early 12c.
- mint (adj.)
- "perfect" (like a freshly minted coin), 1887 (in mint condition), from mint (n.2).
权威例句
- 1. Combine the beans, chopped mint and olive oil in a large bowl.
- 将菜豆、切碎的薄荷和橄榄油放在大碗里搅拌。
- 2. They were worth a mint.
- 它们价值不菲。
- 3. Garnish with mint sprigs.
- 用薄荷枝装点。
- 4. I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of mint.
- 我用小薄荷枝装点水果色拉。
- 5. These pennies were coined at the mint in London.
- 这些便士钱币是伦敦一家制币厂铸造的.
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