root word

基本解釋

He reached back into Latin and Greek and it seems that the root word for gnome means “earth-dwelling.”
他用拉丁文和希臘文造這詞。
It’s just that deceased and predecessor, as well as the word succeed all evolved out of the same earlier root word.
這衹是因爲(wèi)deceased(已故的)和predecessor（前任），以及單詞succeed（繼任）都是由同一個(gè)早期的詞根詞縯變而來。
A quick look in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary provides four different definitions of virtualization’s root word, virtual.
快速瀏覽 Merriam-Webster 在線詞典中虛擬化詞根 virtual 的 4 個(gè)不同定義。

The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."
And we're reminded of the etymological root of our modern English word career.
而後我們就會(huì)想起,現(xiàn)代英語文字語源學(xué)的根源。
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Now, the Hebrew word "holy" has a root meaning of separate. Separate.
現(xiàn)在，這個(gè)希伯來詞語“神聖“，根源的意思是獨(dú)立。
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Each of these distinctions is expressed simply as a conjugation of the root word for vision.
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