英语词汇compound的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	compound
词源	compound. English merchants in the Orient during the 18th century often built enclosed trading stations to protect them- selves and their goods from thieves. They called these stockaded enclosures compounds, from the Malay kampong, “enclosure.” This compound is no relation to the chemist’s compound, which derives from the Latin componere, “put together.”
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