词汇 | trend |
词源 | trend [OE] Old English trendan had the meaning ‘revolve, rotate’. Of Germanic origin, it is related to trundle [M16th]. The sense ‘turn in a specified direction’ dates from the late 16th century, and developed into ‘show a general tendency’ in the mid 19th. |
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