member

英 ['membə] 美 ['mɛmbɚ]

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解释

n. 成员；会员；议员

※ 提供单词"member"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

member 成员，会员

来自拉丁语membrum,肢体，四肢，器官，部分，来自PIE*mems,肉，肉体。引申词义成员，会员。插入字母b,比较number,numeracy.原词义见拉丁语membrum virile,男性生殖器。

英文词源

member: member: [13] Latin membrum originally meant ‘part of the body, limb, organ’ (it has been connected tentatively with various words in other Indo-European languages meaning ‘flesh, meat’, including Sanskrit māmsám and Gothic mimz). But it was early broadened out metaphorically to ‘part of anything, one that belongs’, and brought that meaning with it via Old French membre into English.

The original sense still survives, though, particularly with reference to the ‘penis’ (an application that originated in Latin – membrōsus denoted ‘having a large penis’). Derived from Latin membrum was the adjective membrānus. Its feminine form membrāna was used as a noun meaning ‘skin covering an organ or limb’ – whence English membrane [16].
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member (n.): late 13c., "sex organ" (compare Latin membrum virile, but in English originally of women as well as men), also, "body part or organ" (in plural, "the body"), from Old French membre "part, portion; topic, subject; limb, member of the body; member" (of a group, etc.)," 11c., from Latin membrum "limb, member of the body, part," probably from PIE *mems-ro, from root *mems- "flesh, meat" (cognates: Sanskrit mamsam "flesh;" Greek meninx "membrane," meros "thigh" (the "fleshy part"); Gothic mimz "flesh"). In English, sense of "person belonging to a group" is first attested early 14c., from notion of "constituent part of a complex structure." Meaning "one who has been elected to parliament" is from early 15c.

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例句和用法

1. He was confirmed as a member of the Church of England.: 他领受了坚振礼，成为英国国教会的一员。

2. He was now a teacher and a respectable member of the community.: 他现在是一位教师，并且是社区内受人尊敬的一员。

3. This commission would keep environmental scorecards on UN member nations.: 该委员会将对联合国的成员国采用环境记录卡制。

4. She's 87 years old, and a one-time member of the Ziegfeld Follies.: 她现年87岁，曾经是齐格菲尔时事讽刺剧团的成员之一。

5. The offending comment was in fact a heckle from an audience member.: 这番冒犯性的话实际上是一名观众的诘难。