scope

英 [skəʊp] 美 [skop]

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解释

n. 范围；余地；视野；眼界；导弹射程
vt. 审视

※ 提供单词"scope"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

scope 视野，范围

来自拉丁语 scopus,视野，范围，来自希腊语 skopos,观看者，观察者，置换自 PIE*spek,看，注视，观察，词源同 spectator,inspect.

英文词源

scope: scope: [16] Greek skopós meant ‘target’. As it passed via Italian scopo into English it evolved metaphorically to ‘aim kept in view, goal, purpose’ (‘the seventh Council of Carthage and the Milevitane Council, which both tend to one end and scope, that there should be no appellations made out of Africa’, Nicholas Harpsfield, The Pretended Divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon 1555), but the further step to ‘range’ seems to be an English development.

The Greek word came from the base *skop- ‘look, observe’, which also produced -skopos ‘looking’ (ultimate source of English bishop, which etymologically denotes ‘overseer’) and -skópion ‘instrument for observing’ (which lies behind English microscope, telescope, etc). Sceptic comes from a variant of the same base.
=> bishop, sceptic
scope (n.1): "extent," 1530s, "room to act," from Italian scopo "aim, purpose, object, thing aimed at, mark, target," from Latin scopus, from Greek skopos "aim, target, object of attention; watcher, one who watches" from metathesized form of PIE *spek-yo-, from root *spek- "to observe" (cognates: Sanskrit spasati "sees;" Avestan spasyeiti "spies;" Greek skopein "behold, look, consider," skeptesthai "to look at;" Latin specere "to look at;" Old High German spehhon "to spy," German spähen "to spy"). Sense of "distance the mind can reach, extent of view" first recorded c. 1600.
scope (n.2): "instrument for viewing," 1872, abstracted from telescope, microscope, etc., from Greek skopein "to look" (see scope (n.1)). Earlier used as a shortening of horoscope (c. 1600).
scope (v.): "to view," 1807, from the source of scope (n.2). Related: Scoped; scoping.

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例句和用法

1. Mr Dobson promised to widen the organisation's scope of activity.: 多布森先生许诺拓宽该组织的活动范围。

2. Banks had increased scope to develop new financial products.: 银行已为开发新的金融产品留出了更大余地。

3. There is still scope for new writers to break through.: 仍有一些领域需要新作家们去开拓。

4. There's still plenty of scope for improvement.: 还有很大的改进余地。

5. Articles of this kind fall within the scope of our business activities.: 此类商品在我方经营范围之内.