英语词汇moment的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

moment. Moment has always been used to mean a portion of time too brief to be taken into account, an instant. But as the name of a definite measure of time it has varied throughout the years. Today moment specifically means a minute, 60 seconds, while, according to one old English time unit, a moment took 1½ minutes and in medieval times a moment was either 1⁄40 or 1⁄50 of a minute. Rabbinical reckoning makes a moment precisely 1/1.080 hour. In 1767 a writer described a clock with three hands, “one for the hours, one for the minutes, and a third for the moments.”

词汇	moment
词源	moment. Moment has always been used to mean a portion of time too brief to be taken into account, an instant. But as the name of a definite measure of time it has varied throughout the years. Today moment specifically means a minute, 60 seconds, while, according to one old English time unit, a moment took 1½ minutes and in medieval times a moment was either 1⁄40 or 1⁄50 of a minute. Rabbinical reckoning makes a moment precisely 1/1.080 hour. In 1767 a writer described a clock with three hands, “one for the hours, one for the minutes, and a third for the moments.”
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