英语词汇beneath的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

beneath; beneath contempt. Deriving from an Old English word, beneath is first recorded in 1205. As for its prepositional use, the O.E.D. puts it this way: “The prepositional use of be- neath seems originally to have been introduced to express the notion of ‘lower than’ . . . But in the process of time beneath was so widely used for under that below was laid hold of to ex- press the more general idea . . .” Beneath has thus become “more or less a literary and slightly archaic equivalent” of both under and below, and is preferred to these words only in a few phrases, such as beneath contempt, below the level or dignity even of contempt, which seems to have first been recorded in the late 19th century.

词汇	beneath
词源	beneath; beneath contempt. Deriving from an Old English word, beneath is first recorded in 1205. As for its prepositional use, the O.E.D. puts it this way: “The prepositional use of be- neath seems originally to have been introduced to express the notion of ‘lower than’ . . . But in the process of time beneath was so widely used for under that below was laid hold of to ex- press the more general idea . . .” Beneath has thus become “more or less a literary and slightly archaic equivalent” of both under and below, and is preferred to these words only in a few phrases, such as beneath contempt, below the level or dignity even of contempt, which seems to have first been recorded in the late 19th century.
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