essence

英 ['es(?)ns] 美['?sns]

TEM4考研CET6IELTS中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數(shù):?essences;

essence 本質

來自PIE*es, 是，存在，詞源同is ,am, entity.

essence: essence: [14] Essence and its derivative essential [14] are the English descendants of the Latin verb ‘to be’, esse (which came ultimately from the Indo-European base *es- ‘be’, source also of English is). From it was formed the abstract noun essentia ‘being, existence’, acquired by English through Old French essence. In the adjective essential, the sense ‘a(chǎn)bsolutely necessary’ developed via ‘inherent’ and ‘indispensable’ in the 16th century.
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essence (n.): late 14c., essencia (respelled late 15c. on French model), from Latin essentia "being, essence," abstract noun formed (to translate Greek ousia "being, essence") from essent-, present participle stem of esse "to be," from PIE *es- "to be" (cognates: Sanskrit asmi, Hittite eimi, Old Church Slavonic jesmi, Lithuanian esmi, Gothic imi, Old English eom "I am;" see be).

Originally "substance of the Trinity;" the general sense of "basic element of anything" is first recorded in English 1650s, though this is the underlying notion of the first English use of essential. Meaning "ingredient which gives something its particular character" is from c. 1600, especially of distilled oils from plants (1650s), hence "fragrance, perfume" (17c.). In 19c. U.S., essence-peddler could mean "medical salesman" and "skunk."

1. Though off-puttingly complicated in detail, local taxes are in essence simple.: 雖然地稅在細節(jié)上復雜得要命，但在本質上卻很簡單。

3. Others claim that Ireland's very essence is expressed through the language.: 其他人聲稱愛爾蘭最精髓的東西是通過語言表現(xiàn)出來的。