Rome

英 [r?um] 美

常用詞匯

Rome 羅馬

來自拉丁語 Roma,羅馬，詞源不詳。一種說法是來自 Romulus,傳說中古羅馬人祖先，但是也有學(xué)者指出該名字本身衍生自 Roma.另也有說法認(rèn)為該詞來自 Rumon,穿羅馬城而過的 Tiber 河的古名，來自希臘語 rheo,流動，河流，詞源同 rheum,stream.

Rome: capital of Italy; seat of an ancient republic and empire; city of the Papacy, Old English, from Old French Rome, from Latin Roma, a word of uncertain origin. "The original Roma quadrata was the fortified enclosure on the Palatine hill," according to Tucker, who finds "no probability" in derivation from *sreu- "flow," and suggests the name is "most probably" from *urobsma (urbs, robur) and otherwise, "but less likely" from *urosma "hill" (compare Sanskrit varsman- "height, point," Lithuanian virsus "upper"). Another suggestion [Klein] is that it is from Etruscan (compare Rumon, former name of Tiber River).

Common in proverbs, such as Rome was not buylt in one daye (1540s); for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done (1590s); All roads alike conduct to Rome (1806).

3. They believed ancient Greece and Rome were vital sources of learning.: 他們認(rèn)為古代希臘羅馬是知識的重要發(fā)源地。

4. In 1973, when he lived in Rome, his sixteen-year-old son was kidnapped.: 1973年他在羅馬居住時(shí)，他16歲的兒子遭到了綁架。

5. He spends his time flitting between Florence, Rome and Bologna.: 他輾轉(zhuǎn)于佛羅倫薩、羅馬和博洛尼亞三地之間。