bachelor

释义

• n. 学士；单身汉；（尚未交配的）小雄兽
• n. (Bachelor)人名；(英)巴彻勒

词源

bachelor

bachelor: [13] The ultimate origins of bachelor are obscure, but by the time it first turned up, in Old French bacheler (from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *baccalāris), it meant ‘squire’ or ‘young knight in the service of an older knight’. This was the sense it had when borrowed into English, and it is preserved, in fossilized form, in knight bachelor. Subsequent semantic development was via ‘university graduate’ to, in the late 14th century, ‘unmarried man’.A resemblance to Old Irish bachlach ‘shepherd, peasant’ (a derivative of Old Irish bachall ‘staff’, from Latin baculum, source of English bacillus and related to English bacteria) has led some to speculate that the two may be connected. English baccalaureate [17] comes via French baccalauréat or medieval Latin baccalaureātus from medieval Latin baccalaureus ‘bachelor’, which was an alteration of an earlier baccalārius, perhaps owing to an association with the ‘laurels’ awarded for academic success (Latin bacca lauri meant literally ‘laurel berry’).

例句

• 1. The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life. 那套公寓配有单身生活的基本必需品。
• 2. It wouldn't have occurred to me to get myself a bachelor pad. 否则我不会想到给自己找一套单身公寓。
• 3. I'm a confirmed bachelor. 我抱定了独身的想法。
• 4. Distrusting women, he remained a bachelor all his life. 由于不信任女人, 他做了一辈子单身汉.
• 5. He's a confirmed bachelor. 他抱定主意一辈子独身.