several

英 ['sev(?)r(?)l] 美['s?vr?l]

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several 切開的，一些，幾個(gè)

sever,切開，-al,形容詞后綴。即切開的，引申詞義切成幾份的，一些的，幾個(gè)的。

several: several: [15] Etymologically, several means ‘separate’. It comes via Anglo-Norman several from medieval Latin sēparālis, a derivative of Latin sēpar ‘separate’. This in turn was formed from sēparāre ‘separate’ (source of English separate), whose Vulgar Latin descendant *sēperāre passed into English via Anglo- Norman severer as sever [14]. Several’s original sense ‘separate, individual’ survives in legal terminology, but it has been superseded in the general language by ‘many’, which emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries via ‘different, various’.
=> prepare, separate, sever
several (adj.): early 15c., "existing apart," from Anglo-French several, from Middle French seperalis "separate," from Medieval Latin separalis, from Latin separ "separate, different," back-formation from separare "to separate" (see separate (v.)). Meaning "various, diverse, different" is attested from c. 1500; that of "more than one" is from 1530s, originally in legal use.
Here we are all, by day; by night we're hurled
By dreams, each one into a several world
[Herrick, 1648]
Related: Severalty. Jocular ordinal form severalth attested from 1902 in American English dialect (see -th (2)).

1. Several proposals are under consideration by the state assembly.: 有幾個(gè)提案州議會(huì)正在討論中。

2. He entered for many competitions, winning several gold medals.: 他參加過多次比賽，贏得了數(shù)枚金牌。

3. Several hundred workers struck in sympathy with their colleagues.: 幾百名工人罷工以聲援他們的同事。

4. She travels con-stantly, moving among her several residences around the world.: 她經(jīng)常旅行，穿梭于她在世界各地的多處住所。

5. We felt we were living life on several different planes.: 我們感到大家生活的精神層次各不相同。