单词背后的故事194个英语单词的起源及巧记方法2（The story behind the word the origin and clever recording of 194 English words 2）.docVIP

单词背后的故事194个英语单词的起源及巧记方法2（The story behind the word the origin and clever recording of 194 English words 2） 21, Pen pen Ancient European pens made of reed sticks were written on papyrus paper. About seventh Century years, there was a pipe, that is, a swan or goose quill. The word Pen, written in Old English, Penn, derives from the Latin word Penna, meaning quill and quill, the pen made of feathers. So far, there are still quill pen, but the name is called quill pen, quill is also Ling tube, it can be seen as a overlapping mechanism, but used, but also can not break this overlap mechanism. Pen is now with the development of science evolved into todays pen, pen, pen iraurita, completely lost the feather meaning. 22, Pencil pencils Pencil comes from the Latin word pencillum. It means small tail. It means that in the past there was a period when Western Europeans wrote with a brush. That kind of brush really looked like a small tail. Later, people invented wood and graphite pen, but still had taken the name of pencil, first in front of crown lead (lead) the word, and not actually graphite lead, China has still not put this type of graphite pen called pencil? 23, Ink ink This three letter English word has nine letters of ancestry, which is a Greek word: kauterion, which means branding the iron, and its verb is cauterize, that is branding. The ancient Greeks branded not only cattle with irons. And use it for artistic creation. The iron is used to fix the wax pigments on the screen, which they call encauston, which is called bake in, and is called wax painting in art. The Latin word encauston into encauatum, the meaning has changed, a purple pigment refers to ancient Rome emperor instructions for documents. Ancient French simplified it as enque or Enke, referring to ink in general. Middle English absorbed the word, wrote inke, and later simplified it as ink. 24, Eraser rubber In eighteenth Century the physicist Joseph Priestley found a man named caoutchouc gum South America