instal
英 [in'st?:l]
美
- vt. 安裝；使就任；設(shè)置
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英文詞源
- instal
- instal: [16] To instal someone was originally literally to put them ‘into a stall’. The word comes from medieval Latin installāre, a compound verb based on the noun stallum ‘stall’, and referred originally to the formal induction of someone into an office by ceremonially placing them in a seat or ‘stall’, such as the choir stall of a cathedral. The instalof instalment [18], incidentally, is a different word, although the two are ultimately related.
It is an alteration of an earlier estallment ‘a(chǎn)rrangement for payment’, which came from Anglo-Norman estaler ‘fix payments’. This was a derivative of estal ‘fixed position’, which was borrowed from Old High German stal ‘place’ (source also of medieval Latin stallum).
=> instalment, stall
雙語例句
- 1. The novel will appear in instal ( l ) ments .
- 這部小說將 分期 發(fā)表.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 2. Note: If special external and instal lational dimensions were required, it can be manufactured for you.
- 注: 外形尺寸和安裝尺寸有特殊要求, 可以定制.
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