C

英美[si]

基本詞匯

C 英語字母表的第三個字母

英語字母 C 來自希臘字母Gamma，來自腓尼基字母Gimel，義為“駱駝”。

C: third letter of the alphabet. Alphabetic writing came to Rome via the southern Etruscan "Caeretan" script, in which gamma was written as a crescent. Early Romans made little use of Greek kappa and used gamma for both the "g" and "k" sounds, the latter more frequently, so that the "k" sound came to be seen as the proper one for gamma. To restore a dedicated symbol for the "g" sound, a modified gamma was introduced c. 250 B.C.E. as G. In classical Latin -c- has only the value "k," and thus it passed to Celtic and, via Irish monks, to Anglo-Saxon, where -k- was known but little used.

In Old French, many "k" sounds drifted to "ts" and by 13c., "s," but still were written with a -c-. Thus the 1066 invasion brought to the English language a more vigorous use of -k- and a flood of French and Latin words in which -c- represented "s" (as in cease, ceiling, circle). By 15c. native English words with -s- were being respelled with -c- for "s" (as in ice, mice, lice). In some words from Italian, meanwhile, the -c- has a "ch" sound (a sound evolution in Italian that parallels the Old French one).

1. You can buy a formulation containing royal jelly, pollen and vitamin C.: 可以買一種含蜂王漿、花粉和維生素C的配方產品。

2. Howe carefully cultivated Daniel C. Roper, the Assistant Postmaster General.: 豪謹慎地和郵政副部長丹尼爾·C.羅珀拉近關系。

4. One of the wittiest exemplars of the technique was M. C. Escher.: 最為巧妙地運用那種技巧的一個典型人物就是M.C.埃舍爾。