2012_06_21 Enchiridion n. 手冊。A handbook

Word of the Day for Thursday, June 21, 2012
enchiridion \en-kahy-RID-ee-uhn\, noun:
A handbook; manual.
For you offer us the postulation that we can, in the shadow, or rather the radiance, of your own enchiridion, go and do likewise.
 -- Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Sarah and Isaac were romping noisily about and under the beds; Rachel was at the table, knitting a scarf for Solomon; grandmother pored over a bulky enchiridion for pious women, written in jargon.
 -- Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto
Enchiridion stems from the Greek root cheir meaning "hand". The prefix en- means "within", so the noun means "in the hand". The suffix -idion denotes a diminutive form of another word.
一本手冊;手冊。為您提供我們的公設，我們可以在陰影，或相當的輻射，自己便覽，去也這樣做。  - 普魯斯特，斯旺的方式莎拉和以撒嬉戲喧嘩和床鋪下;雷切爾在表，針織為所羅門圍巾的祖母在一個虔誠的婦女，在行話書面笨重便覽看了又看。  - 以色列贊格威爾，貧民窟兒童便覽源於希臘詞根，意思是“手”cheir。前綴的方式“內”，所以這個名詞是指“在手”。後綴idion表示一個字一個身材矮小的形式。