horizon: [14] Etymologically, the horizon is simply a ‘line forming a boundary’. The word comes via Old French orizon and late Latin horīzōn from Greek horízōn, a derivative of the verb horīzein ‘divide, separate’ (source also of English aphorism [16], originally a ‘definition’). This in turn came from the noun hóros ‘boundary, limit’. Horizontal [16], which came either from French or directly from late Latin, originally meant simply ‘of the horizon’; it was not until the 17th century that it began to be used in its modern sense ‘flat, level’. => aphorism
horizon (n.)
late 14c., orisoun, from Old French orizon (14c., Modern French horizon), earlier orizonte (13c.), from Latin horizontem (nominative horizon), from Greek horizon kyklos "bounding circle," from horizein "bound, limit, divide, separate," from horos "boundary." The h- was restored 17c. in imitation of Latin. Old English used eaggemearc ("eye-mark") for "limit of view, horizon."
双语例句
1. She stared dreamily out of the small window at the blue horizon.
她出神地看着小窗子外面的蓝色地平线。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Johnson's smashing victory in 1964 changed the political horizon substantially.
1964年约翰逊的大获成功给政界带来了翻天覆地的变化。
来自柯林斯例句
3. At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey.
陆地在地平线处变成了一片浅灰。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Soon they were only dots above the hard line of the horizon.