词汇练习155-163.pptVIP

Homework Please finish the exercises on 163. Exercise one 1. climate: The word comes from a Greek word Klimax meaning “slope”. The Greek word climb comes from the same word. 2. magnet: It is named after Magaesta a district in Thessaly where the magnesina was found. 3. pedal: The Latin word for foot is pedis or pes. 4.caterpillar: In Latin catta meant a “cat” and pilosus meant “hairy”. 5. circus: In Roman it means “a ring of space in which horse and chariot races were held”. 6. Gypsy: Wandering groups came from India were thought to have spent many years in Egypt. 7. Cereals: The word come from the Roman goddess of agriculture “Ceres”. 8. crocodile: It is originated in the Greek language as krokodilos meaning a “lizard”. 9. khaki: It is the name of the sand or dust-colored uniforms worn by the British and Indian troops in India about 1850. 10. steak: Its name come form the Old Norse words stik meaning a “stick” and teik meaning a “slice of meant roasted on a spit”. 11. bullet: French word Boulet means “a little ball”. 12. broadcast: Farmers used to sow their fields by hand, throwing handfuls from right to left from a bag slung across their bodies. This was called broadcasting (throwing aboard in all directions). 13. hamburger: It is said to have invented by Tarar invaders of the Baltic countries. Sailors from the German port Hamburg, took the idea home. 14. umbrella: It come from the Latin word “umbra” meaning “shade”. 15. area: This is a Latin words which means “a piece of level ground”. 16. chocolate: When Spaniards conquered Mexico, they found the local people had a very popular drink named chocolatl. 17. Bible: The word began long before the Bible was written. Egyptians used the papyrus plant to make sheets of writing. Their neighbor shipped the papyrus sheets and books to countries around the Mediterranean Sea. From the city papyrus were exported was called byblos and from this name papyrus began to be called biblos. The Greeks called a little book a bibl