biology

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復(fù)數(shù):?biologies;

biology 生物學(xué)

詞根bio, 生命。詞根logy, 學(xué)說。

biology: biology: [19] The modern European languages have made prolific use of Greek bíos ‘life’ as a prefix, particularly in the 20th century. The first compound into which it entered in English seems to have been biotic, in the now obsolete sense ‘of secular life’ (around 1600), but the trend was really set by biography, first recorded as being used by John Dryden in his Life of Plutarch 1683. Biology itself came along at the beginning of the 19th century, via French, having been coined in German by Gottfried Reinhold in 1802.

Twentieth-century contributions have included bioengineering, biometric, bionic, biorhythm, and biotechnology. Greek bíos itself goes back to an Indo-European base *gwej-, from which English also ultimately gets quick, vital, vivid, and zoo.
=> quick, vital, vivid, zoo
biology (n.): 1819, from Greek bios "life" (see bio-) + -logy. Suggested 1802 by German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837), and introduced as a scientific term that year in French by Lamarck.

1. An A-level pass in Biology is preferred for all courses.: 不管讀什么課程，生物學(xué)高級證書考試最好都要及格。

2. For a discussion of biology and sexual politics, see chapter 4.: 生態(tài)政治和性別政治論述請見第4章。

5. one of the most exciting developments in biology in recent years: 近年來生物學(xué)上一項最令人振奮的新發(fā)展