词汇 | medium |
词根词缀 | 词源: medium (n.) 1584, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from L. medium, from neut. of adj. medius (see medial). Meaning "intermediate agency, channel of communication" is from 1605. That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." Artistic sense (oil, watercolors, etc.) is from 1854. The adj. is 1670, from the noun; as a designation of cooked meat, it is attested from 1939. Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas. 词根记忆: n. (pl.media)媒体,方法,媒介,介质a.中等的In the cinema the medicine immediately remedied the medium.在电影院里这种药立刻拯救了中间人. n. 媒介物(med+ium→中间物,媒介)[med=middle,表示"中间"] 词根词缀: medium medium n 媒介物(med+ium=中间物,媒介) med=middle,表示”中间” medial a 中间的,平均的(med+ial) median a 中央的(med+ian) mediate v 调停a. 中间的(med+iate=在中间[走]=调停) mediation n 调解,仲裁(mediate+ion) mediator n 调解人(mediate+or人) immediate a即刻的,直接的(im无+med +iate=无中间=立刻的) mediocre a 平庸的,中等的(med+iocre石山=中间的山=不是高山=平庸的) medium n 媒介物(med+ium=中间物,媒介) |
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