英语词汇glossary的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

glossary; gloss over. The two senses of gloss constitute one of the 700 or so sets of homonyms in English, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. The earlier gloss, from the Greek glossa which meant “tongue,” then “word,” and finally “explanation of the word,” came to be used in the sense of language and gave us both the term to gloss, “to explain, or translate a text,” and glossary, alphabetical wordbook or “collec- tion of explanations” (glosses) sometimes printed in the backs of books to explain difficult words or passages. The Middle High German glos, “shun,” had nothing to do with language, but yielded our word gloss, for “superficial luster.” However, the words were often confused by early writers and influenced each other, to gloss over coming to mean “to excuse or explain some- thing away, to provide a false or superficial appearance or ex- planation.” Possibly, too, the idea of careless or lazy scholars changing the meaning of difficult passages in classical works by making incorrect, superficial glosses or marginal comments re- inforced the meaning of to gloss over.

词汇	glossary
词源	glossary; gloss over. The two senses of gloss constitute one of the 700 or so sets of homonyms in English, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. The earlier gloss, from the Greek glossa which meant “tongue,” then “word,” and finally “explanation of the word,” came to be used in the sense of language and gave us both the term to gloss, “to explain, or translate a text,” and glossary, alphabetical wordbook or “collec- tion of explanations” (glosses) sometimes printed in the backs of books to explain difficult words or passages. The Middle High German glos, “shun,” had nothing to do with language, but yielded our word gloss, for “superficial luster.” However, the words were often confused by early writers and influenced each other, to gloss over coming to mean “to excuse or explain some- thing away, to provide a false or superficial appearance or ex- planation.” Possibly, too, the idea of careless or lazy scholars changing the meaning of difficult passages in classical works by making incorrect, superficial glosses or marginal comments re- inforced the meaning of to gloss over.
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