category
英 ['kætɪg(ə)rɪ]
美 ['kætəɡɔri]
助记提示
1. cat- + egor- "declaim (in the assembly)" + -y.
2. 其本意为：speak against, accuse, assert, predicate.
3. Original sense of "accuse" weakened to "assert, name" by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.
4. 由此进而引申为如今的：种类、范畴、类别。
5. 该词的最初含义在categorical\categorically中还看得到、还保留着。
双语例句
- 1. The judges could not decide which category it belonged in.
- 评委们无法判定它属于哪一类。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Designer wedding dresses make wedding fashion a separate category from mainstream fashion.
- 著名设计师设计的婚纱使得婚纱时尚有别于主流服装时尚。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Over the decade, women in this category went up by 120%.
- 过去10年，这类女性多了120％。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. This book clearly falls into the category of fictionalised autobiography.
- 这本书很显然属于自传体小说。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Students over 25 fall into a different category .
- 25岁以上的学生属另一类。
来自《权威词典》
