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current

英 ['kʌr(ə)nt]美 ['kɝənt]

adj. 現在的；流通的，通用的；最近的；草寫的

n. （水，氣，電）流；趨勢；涌流

n. (Current)人名；(英)柯倫特

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中文詞源

current 當前的，流通的

來自PIE*kers, 跑，詞源同car,course.

英語詞源

current

current: [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant, the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift Movement’, which probably also produced car, career, carry, and charge. The Latin verb itself has a wide range of descendants in English, from the obvious courier [16] to the more heavily disguised corridor [16] (originally literally ‘a run’), occur and succour.

For the English offspring of its past participle cursus see COURSE. The sense ‘of the present time’ (first recorded in the 17th century) comes from the notion of ‘running in time’ or ‘being in progress’.

=> car, carry, charge, corridor, courier, course, occur, succour

current (adj.)

c. 1300, "running, flowing," from Old French corant "running, lively, eager, swift," present participle of corre "to run," from Latin currere "to run, move quickly" (of persons or things), from PIE *kers- "to run" (cognates: Greek -khouros "running," Lithuanian karsiu "go quickly," Old Norse horskr "swift," Old Irish and Middle Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot," Welsh carrog "torrent"). Meaning "prevalent, generally accepted" is from 1560s.

current (n.)

late 14c., from Middle French corant (Modern French courant), from Old French corant (see current (adj.)). Applied 1747 to the flow of electrical force.

權威例句

1. The tidal stream or current gradually decreases in the shallows.

淺灘上的潮水逐漸退去。

2. He must sell the house for the current market value.

他必須以目前的市價出售這座房子。

3. Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.

現行僱傭法要變，要獎勤罰懶。

4. The current sole superpower is far from being a disinterested observer.

當前唯一的超級大國遠不是一個公正的旁觀者。

5. Stimulate the site of greatest pain with a small negative current.

以微弱負電流刺激疼得最厲害的部位。

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