chalice

英 ['t??l?s] 美

GRE暢通詞匯

復數:?chalices;

chalice 大酒杯

來自PIE*kal, 杯子，詞源同calyx, 花萼。進一步來自PIE*keue, keup, 詞源同cup.

chalice: chalice: [13] Latin calix ‘cup’ and its relative, Greek kálux ‘pod’, perhaps hold the record for the words most often borrowed into English. Calix first made its appearance as part of the original West Germanic stratum of English, into which it had been borrowed from Latin; this was as Old English c?lc. Then came c?lic, which Old English independently acquired from Latin after the conversion of the English to Christianity.

Next was calice, whose source was an Old French dialectal form descended from Latin calix. And finally, at the end of the 13th century, the main Old French form chalice was adopted. The final twist in the story is that in the 17th century Latin calyx (a descendant of the related Greek kálux) was borrowed into English as a botanical term, ‘outer covering of a flower’.
chalice (n.): early 14c., from Anglo-French chalice, from Old French chalice, collateral form of calice (Modern French calice), from Latin calicem (nominative calix) "cup," cognate with Greek kylix "cup, drinking cup, cup of a flower," from PIE root *kal- (1) "cup." Ousted Old English cognate c?lic, an ecclesiastical borrowing of the Latin word, and earlier Middle English caliz, from Old North French.

2. He inherited a poisoned chalice when he took over the job as union leader.: 他接手工會領導職務,看似風光,實則會給他帶來很多麻煩.

3. Some people even claimed that he appointed his political rival only in the belief that he was giving him a poisoned chalice and that he would not last more than a year.: 有人甚至說，他之所以任命自己的政治對手，是因為他知道所給的職位是杯誘人的毒酒，接受者肯定撐不過一年。

4. She was essentially feminine, in other words, a parasite and a chalice.: 她在本質上是個女人, 換句話說, 是一個食客和一只酒杯.