essay

英 ['ese?] 美['?se]
  • n. 散文;試圖;隨筆
  • vt. 嘗試;對…做試驗

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詞態變化


復數:?essays;第三人稱單數:?essays;過去式:?essayed;過去分詞:?essayed;現在分詞:?essaying;

中文詞源


essay 散文,企圖

來自拉丁語exigere, 嘗試,測試,來自ex-, 向外,ig-, 做,嘗試,詞源同agent. 英國學者弗朗西斯·培根用該詞命名一種新的寫作文體。assay為其拼寫異體詞,但詞義發生了變化。

英文詞源


essay
essay: [15] Essay and assay [14] are fundamentally the same word, and only began to diverge in the 15th century. Both come via Old French assaier from Vulgar Latin *exagiāre ‘weigh out’, a verb derived from late Latin exagium ‘weighing’; this in turn was formed from the Latin verb exigere ‘weigh’ (source of English exact and examine).

Accordingly, both originally had underlying connotations of ‘testing by weighing’. But while these have become more concrete in assay ‘analyse precious metals’, essay has, under the influence of French essayer, gone down the more metaphorical route from ‘test’ to ‘try’. The verb now survives only in fairly formal use, but the noun is much more frequent, owing to its application to a ‘short nonfictional literary composition’.

It was first used thus in English by Francis Bacon in 1597 as the title of a collection of such pieces, and it is generally assumed that he borrowed the idea from the Essais of Montaigne, published in 1580.

=> assay, exact, examine
essay (n.)
1590s, "trial, attempt, endeavor," also "short, discursive literary composition" (first attested in writings of Francis Bacon, probably in imitation of Montaigne), from Middle French essai "trial, attempt, essay" (in Old French from 12c.), from Late Latin exagium "a weighing, a weight," from Latin exigere "drive out; require, exact; examine, try, test," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + agere (see act (n.)) apparently meaning here "to weigh." The suggestion is of unpolished writing. Compare assay, also examine.
essay (v.)
"to put to proof, test the mettle of," late 15c., from Middle French essaier, from essai "trial, attempt" (see essay (n.)). This sense has mostly gone with the divergent spelling assay. Meaning "to attempt" is from 1640s. Related: Essayed; essaying.

雙語例句


1. This was a troubling essay on the anatomy of nationhood.
這是一篇剖析民族主義的讓人不安的文章。

來自柯林斯例句

2. His first essay in running a company was a notoriously tough undertaking.
眾所周知,他第一次嘗試經營公司時十分艱難。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The points you make are fine, but the whole essay lacks coherence.
你提出的論點很好,但整篇文章缺乏呼應連貫。

來自《權威詞典》

4. Reading this essay was an elevating experience.
閱讀這篇短文很有啟發。

來自《權威詞典》

5. an essay on the causes of the First World War
關于第一次世界大戰起因的文章

來自《權威詞典》

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