英语词汇moron的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

moron; amp. It is often noted that moron, as a scientific des- ignation for a feebleminded person, was the only word ever voted into the language. It was adopted in 1910 by the Ameri- can Association for the Study of the Feeble Minded from the name of a foolish character in Molière’s play La Princesse d’Élide. This claim overlooks the fact that the unit of electric current called an ampere, or amp, was adopted at the Interna- tional Electrical Congress held in Paris 29 years earlier. The ampere, the unit by which the strength and rate of flow of an electric current can be measured, was named for the brilliant French scientist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836). His name also gives us such technical terms as amperehour, Ampère’s law, ampereturn, and amperometric titration.

词汇	moron
词源	moron; amp. It is often noted that moron, as a scientific des- ignation for a feebleminded person, was the only word ever voted into the language. It was adopted in 1910 by the Ameri- can Association for the Study of the Feeble Minded from the name of a foolish character in Molière’s play La Princesse d’Élide. This claim overlooks the fact that the unit of electric current called an ampere, or amp, was adopted at the Interna- tional Electrical Congress held in Paris 29 years earlier. The ampere, the unit by which the strength and rate of flow of an electric current can be measured, was named for the brilliant French scientist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836). His name also gives us such technical terms as amperehour, Ampère’s law, ampereturn, and amperometric titration.
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