词汇 | care |
词根词缀 | 词源: O.E. caru, cearu "sorrow, anxiety, grief," also "serious mental attention," from P.Gmc. *karo, from PIE base *gar- "cry out, scream." Sense of "charge, oversight, protection" is c.1400. The verb is O.E. carian, cearian "to feel concern or interest," from P.Gmc. *karojanan. Phrase couldn't care less is from 1946; could care less in the same sense (with an understood negative) is 1966. Care figures in many "similies of indifference" in the form don't care a _____, with the blank filled by fig, pin, button, cent, straw, rush, point, farthing, snap, etc. 词根记忆: n. 小心;关怀,照料v.(about)关心,介意,计较The careful man is scarcely scared by the scarce parcel.细心男子勉强被罕见的包裹吓了一下. |
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