英汉词典

history 基本解释

• n. 历史，历史学；历史记录；来历

history 词态变化

history 中文词源

来自拉丁语historia,叙述，告知，讲述过去发生的事，来自希腊语histor,智者，见证者，评论者，来自PIE*wid-tor,看，知道，了解，词源同visit,vision.其原义更偏重于讲故事，含有个人的主观色彩，后来从14世纪开始才逐渐确立为对过去发生事件的真实记录，而于1842年才确立为一门学科，即我们现在所理解的历史学。比较其与同源词story的区别。

history 英文词源

history

history: [15] Etymologically, history denotes simply ‘knowledge’; its much more specific modern meaning is decidedly a secondary development. Its story begins with Greek hístōr ‘learned man’, a descendant of Indo-European *wid- ‘know, see’, which also produced English wit and Latin vidēre ‘see’. From hístōr was derived historíā ‘knowledge obtained by enquiry’, hence ‘written account of one’s enquiries, narrative, history’.

English acquired it via Latin historia, and at first used it for ‘fictional narrative’ as well as ‘account of actual events in the past’ (a sense now restricted to story, essentially the same word but acquired via Anglo-Norman).
=> story, vision, wit

history (n.)

late 14c., "relation of incidents" (true or false), from Old French estoire, estorie "chronicle, history, story" (12c., Modern French histoire), from Latin historia "narrative of past events, account, tale, story," from Greek historia "a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one's inquiries, history, record, narrative," from historein "inquire," from histor "wise man, judge," from PIE *wid-tor-, from root *weid- "to know," literally "to see" (see vision).

Related to Greek idein "to see," and to eidenai "to know." In Middle English, not differentiated from story; sense of "record of past events" probably first attested late 15c. As a branch of knowledge, from 1842. Sense of "systematic account (without reference to time) of a set of natural phenomena" (1560s) is now obsolete except in natural history.

One difference between history and imaginative literature ... is that history neither anticipates nor satisfies our curiosity, whereas literature does. [Guy Davenport, "Wheel Ruts," 1996]

history 词组搭配

history 英文释义

1. the aggregate of past events;

"a critical time in the school's history"

2. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future;

"all of human history"

3. a record or narrative description of past events;

"a history of France"

"he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"

"the story of exposure to lead"

4. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings;

"he teaches Medieval history"

"history takes the long view"

5. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge;

"the dawn of recorded history"

"from the beginning of history"

history 双语例句

1. I fell under the influence of a history master.

我当时深受一位历史老师的影响。

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2. The boundaries between history and storytelling are always being blurred and muddled.

历史和轶闻的分界向来是模糊而混乱的。

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3. With apologies to my old history teacher, who needs history lessons?

这话对不住我亲爱的历史老师，不过有谁需要历史课呢？

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4. The book is both a history and a passionate polemic for tolerance.

这本书既是一段历史，也是一篇主张宽容的激情论辩。

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5. The whole idea was to give history a happy gloss.

整个想法就是要粉饰历史。

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history 实用场景例句

Another mistake like that and you're history.

要是再犯那种错误你就完了。

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a patient's medical history

病人的病历

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There is a history of heart disease in my family.

我家有家族心脏病史。

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He has a history of violent crime.

他有暴力犯罪的前科。

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She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters.

接下来她列举了一长串灾难。

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She's writing a new history of Europe.

她正在写一部新的欧洲史。

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She's studying art history .

她正在研读艺术史。

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ancient/medieval/modern history

古代 / 中世纪 / 近代史

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social/economic/political history

社会 / 经济 / 政治史

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a history teacher

历史老师

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a degree in History

历史学学位

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The local history of the area is fascinating.

这个地区的历史很有意思。

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The school traces its history back to 1865.

这个学校的历史可以追溯到1865年。

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the history of Ireland/democracy/popular music

爱尔兰 / 民主 / 流行音乐的历史

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These events changed the course of history .

这些事件改变了历史的进程。

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The area was inhabited long before the dawn of recorded history (= before people wrote about events) .

早在有历史记载之前很久这个地区就有人居住了。

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Many people throughout history have dreamt of a world without war.

历史上有很多人梦想过没有战争的世界。

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a people with no sense of history

一个没有历史感的民族

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one of the worst disasters in recent history

近代史上最大的灾难之一

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a turning point in human history

人类历史的一个转折点

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We met at college, the rest is history.

我们是在上大学时认识的，接下来的事大家都知道了。

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The Charlottetown agreement is history.

夏洛特敦协定已成为历史。

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...an exhibition documenting the personal history of Anne Frank.

安妮·弗兰克生平资料展

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He couldn't get a new job because of his medical history.

由于他的病史，他无法找到新的工作。

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The boy's mother had a history of abusing her children.

男孩的母亲过去常虐待自己的孩子。

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He had a history of drink problems...

他过去酗酒度日。

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...oral histories taken from elderly people in Rochester.

罗切斯特老一辈人的口述史

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...his magnificent history of broadcasting in Canada.

他在加拿大辉煌的播音史

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...the most evil mass killer in history.

历史上最令人发指的屠杀狂徒

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The Catholic Church has played a prominent role throughout Polish history.

天主教会在整个波兰历史上曾发挥过举足轻重的作用。

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