【字源其说】segregation

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今日单词:segregation2

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简单释义


词源

该词最早记录于1550年代,意为“隔离的行为”。

来自于晚期拉丁语segregationem (主格segregatio)

来自于segregare的过去分词 (see segregate).

来自于se,意为“从……隔开的” + grege,意为“兽群、人群”


相关词汇

  • egregious 极坏的
  • aggregate 总数

实际句例

  1. Did Joe Biden Say He Didn’t Want His Kids Growing Up in a ‘Racial Jungle’?

Biden at the time had emerged as the Democratic party’s crusader against busing, taking the same side as segregationists. Biden “joined up with Jesse Helms, the segregationist senator from North Carolina, to offer his own anti-busing amendment to that year’s education spending bill.

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