canvas: [14] Canvas is related ultimately to hemp, for originally canvas was a cloth made from hemp. Latin cannabis (from the same source as English hemp) produced the Vulgar Latin derivative *cannapāceum, which passed into English via Old Northern French canevas. The verb canvass [16] appears to come from the noun: it originally meant ‘toss in a canvas sheet’, and this was perhaps the basis, via an intermediate ‘criticize roughly’, of the metaphorical sense ‘discuss thoroughly’. It is not clear where the political meaning ‘solicit votes’ came from. => cannabis, hemp
canvas (n.)
"sturdy cloth made from hemp or flax," mid-14c., from Anglo-French canevaz, Old North French canevach, Old French chanevaz, literally "made of hemp, hempen," noun use of Vulgar Latin adjective *cannapaceus "made of hemp," from Latin cannabis, from Greek kannabis "hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word (see cannabis).
Latin adjectives in -aceus sometimes were made in Romanic languages into nouns of augmentative or pejorative force. Especially as a surface for oil paintings from c. 1700; hence "an oil painting" (1764).
双语例句
1. She sat down cautiously on the red canvas cushions, knees modestly together.
她小心翼翼地在红帆布垫上坐下，膝盖矜持地并拢着。
来自柯林斯例句
2. First I applied a blue colour wash to the canvas.
我先在画布上涂了一层蓝色水彩。
来自《权威词典》
3. The times that people used canvas boat have become history.
人们用帆船的时代已成为历史.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Smith painted an oil painting on the canvas.
史密斯在画布上画了一幅油画.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. These rules however don't affect the actual drawing on the canvas.
