tandem: [18] Latin tandem meant ‘eventually, at length’. Its use for ‘acting conjointly’ arose from an 18th-century play on words, in which ‘at length’ was jocularly interpreted as ‘lengthwise, in a straight line’, and the word was applied to a ‘carriage drawn by two horses one behind the other in a straight line’. In the 1880s it was transferred to a ‘bicycle with two seats, one behind the other’. Its more general modern use, for ‘acting together’, dates from the early 20th century.
tandem (n.)
1785, "carriage pulled by horses harnessed one behind the other" (instead of side-by-side), jocular use of Latin tandem "at length (of time), at last, so much," from tam "so" (from PIE *tam-, adverbial form of demonstrative pronoun root *-to-; see -th (1)) + demonstrative suffix -dem. "Probably first in university use" [Century Dictionary]. Transferred by 1884 to bicycles with two seats. In English as an adverb from 1795; as an adjective from 1801.
双语例句
1. He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.
他正配合欺诈重案办公室的官员工作。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one.
马尔科姆的合同将与他手头的合同同时生效。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The TANDEM welding is an ideal technology for the welding of panel in shipyard.
TANDEM焊接工艺是船厂拼板焊接比较理想的焊接工艺.
来自互联网
4. He and his wife run the business in tandem , ie as partners.
他和妻子共同经营这生意.
来自辞典例句
5. Show that paralleled branches and tandem branches may be replaced by equivalent graphs as shown below.
