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-你\,名詞:

選定的文學段落的集合。

我所學到的,讀Sanscrit到翻譯讀本容易的通道,並致力於自己特別熱情的拉丁語法和韻律的研究。
- 格奧爾格·埃伯斯,我的生活故事,從童年到成年

這個小讀本保留幾乎已經從古代倖存下來的唯一的話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的意思是“使用”和數學的意義,“學習。”

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