Pentateuch
英 ['pentətju:k]
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英文词源
- Pentateuch
- first five books of the Bible, c. 1400, from Late Latin pentateuchus (Tertullian, c.207), from Greek pentateukhos (c. 160), originally an adjective (abstracted from phrase pentateukhos biblos), from pente "five" (see five) + teukhos "implement, vessel, gear" (in Late Greek "book," via notion of "case for scrolls"), literally "anything produced," related to teukhein "to make ready," from PIE *dheugh- "to produce something of utility" (see doughty). Glossed in Old English as fifbec.
双语例句
- 1. It is one of the five books of the Old Testament that make up the Pentateuch.
- 此卷是《旧约》的五书之一,它们构成“摩西五经”.
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