lamp: [12] A lamp is literally something that ‘shines’. The word comes via Old French lampe and Latin lampas from Greek lampás, which was derived from the verb lámpein ‘give light, shine’ (source also of English lantern). The Greek word originally denoted a ‘bunch of burning sticks, torch’, but in post-classical times it was applied to an ‘oil lamp’. The Old English word for ‘lamp’ was lēohtfoet, literally ‘lightvessel’. => lantern
lamp (n.)
c. 1200, from Old French lampe "lamp, lights" (12c.), from Latin lampas "a light, torch, flambeau," from Greek lampas "torch, lamp, beacon, meteor, light," from lampein "to shine," from nasalized form of PIE root *lap- "to shine" (cognates: Lithuanian lope "light," Old Irish lassar "flame"). Replaced Old English leohtfæt "light vessel." To smell of the lamp "be a product of laborious night study" is from 1570s.
双语例句
1. I used my thumbnail to tighten the screw on my lamp.
我用拇指指甲把台灯上的螺钉拧紧了。
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2. Eddie parked his cycle against a lamp post and padlocked it.
埃迪把他的自行车靠在路灯柱上，用挂锁锁好。
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3. In the evenings we eat by the light of an oil lamp.
晚上我们便在一盏油灯下吃饭。
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4. The base of the lamp unscrews for wiring and mounting.
