symptom
英 ['sɪm(p)təm]
美['sɪmptəm]
- n. [临床] 症状；征兆
词态变化
复数: symptoms;
中文词源
symptom 症状，征兆
来自希腊语 symptoma, 疾病， 发生， 来自 sym-, 一起， 一致，-pt, 追逐， 降落， 词源同 compete,petition,-oma,名词后缀。引申词义症状，征兆等。词义演变比较 syndrome,综合症。
英文词源
- symptom
- symptom: [16] A symptom is etymologically something that ‘happens’ – an occurrence or phenomenon. The word’s application to physiological phenomena as signs of disease is a secondary development. It comes via late Latin symptōma from Greek súmptōma ‘occurrence’, a derivative of sumpíptein ‘fall together’, hence ‘fall on, happen to’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix sun- ‘together’ and píptein ‘fall’.
- symptom (n.)
- 1540s, re-Latinized from sinthoma (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin sinthoma "symptom of a disease," altered from Late Latin symptoma, from Greek symptoma "a happening, accident, disease," from stem of sympiptein "to befall, happen; coincide, fall together," from assimilated form of syn- "together" (see syn-) + piptein "to fall," from PIE *pi-pt-, reduplicated form of root *pet- "to rush; to fly" (see petition (n.)).
Spelling restored in early Modern English in part by influence of Middle French symptome (16c.). General (non-medical) use is from 1610s.
双语例句
- 1. One prominent symptom of the disease is progressive loss of memory.
- 这种疾病的一个显著症状就是记忆逐渐丧失。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Victoria was strangely undisturbed by this symptom, even though her husband and family were frightened.
- 尽管丈夫和家人都吓坏了，维多利亚却对这一症状出奇地淡定。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. It is probable that the medication will suppress the symptom without treating the condition.
- 这种药物有可能治标不治本。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Was the noise a cause of the illness, or were the complaints about noise merely a symptom?
- 噪音是病因呢, 还是对噪音的抱怨仅仅是一种症状 呢 ?
来自《用法词典》
- 5. Your problem with keeping boyfriends is just a symptom of a larger problem: making and keeping friends.
- 你在维系同男友的关系时遭遇的困难暴露了一个更大的问题：如何结交朋友和维持友谊。
来自柯林斯例句