tenet
英 ['ten?t; 'ti?net]
美 ['t?n?t]
- n. 原則；信條；教義
- n. (Tenet)人名；(法)特內；(英)特尼特
助記提示
1. from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "hold, keep, maintain".
2. "principle," properly "a thing held (to be true)".
3. The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.
中文詞源
tenet 原則，信條，教義來自拉丁語 tenet,他所持有的，他所堅持的，來自 tenere 的指示格，來自 tenere,持有，握住， 堅持，詞源同 contain,tenure.引申詞義原則，信條，教義等。
英文詞源
- tenet
- tenet: see tenant
- tenet (n.)
- "principle, opinion, or dogma maintained as true by a person, sect, school, etc.," properly "a thing held (to be true)," early 15c., from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "to hold, grasp, keep, have possession, maintain," also "reach, gain, acquire, obtain; hold back, repress, restrain;" figuratively "hold in mind, take in, understand."
The Latin word is from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tantram "loom," tanoti "stretches, lasts;" Persian tar "string;" Lithuanian tankus "compact," i.e. "tightened;" Greek teinein "to stretch," tasis "a stretching, tension," tenos "sinew," tetanos "stiff, rigid," tonos "string," hence "sound, pitch;" Latin tendere "to stretch," tenuis "thin, rare, fine;" Old Church Slavonic tento "cord;" Old English tynne "thin"). Connecting notion between "stretch" and "hold" is "cause to maintain." The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.
雙語例句
- 1. This is a basic tenet of capitalism.
- 這是資本主義的一則基本信條.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. The judge's ruling was based on the simple commonsense tenet that no man is above the law.
- 法官的判決基于一個常識性原則，即誰也不能凌駕于法律之上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. The only moral tenet governing the conduct of business in the shop was that the goods should be genuine and the price fair.
- 貨真價實,是商店唯一的道德.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 4. The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc.
- 竄改過去是英社的中心原則.
來自英漢文學
- 5. I hold to the tenet that theory should be united with practice.
- 我堅持理論和實踐必須相結合的原則.
來自辭典例句