2012年5月23日 星期三

2012_05_23 Chrestomathy n. 讀本 A collection of selected literary passages.

Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 23, 2012
chrestomathy \kres-TOM-uh-thee\, noun:
A collection of selected literary passages.
I had learned to read Sanscrit and to translate easy passages in the chrestomathy, and devoted myself with special zeal to the study of the Latin grammar and prosody.
 -- Georg Ebers, The Story of My Life from Childhood to Manhood
This little chrestomathy preserves almost the only words of Atticus to have survived from antiquity.
 -- Peter White, Cicero in Letters
Chrestomathy literally means "useful to learn" in Greek, from the roots chres- meaning "to use" and math- meaning "to learn."
讀本\ kres-TOM-UH-\,名詞

選定的文學段落集合

我所學到的Sanscrit翻譯讀本容易通道,並致力於自己特別熱情拉丁語法韻律研究
- 格奧爾格·埃伯斯我的生活故事童年到成年

這個小讀本保留幾乎已經從古代倖存下來唯一Atticus市
- 彼得·懷特,西塞羅在信件

讀本字面意思是“有用的學習”在希臘從根部chres意思是“使用”數學的意義“學習

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