英语词典 · 单词释义
fraction
英 ['frækʃ(ə)n] 美 ['frækʃən]
这里集中整理“fraction”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 分数；部分；小部分；稍微
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: fractions;
中文词源
fraction 部分，少量
来自PIE*bhreg, 分开，破开，词源同break, fragment. 即破开的部分，少量。
英文词源
- fraction
- fraction: [14] Like fracture [15], which preserves its etymological meaning more closely, fraction comes ultimately from fractus, the past participle of Latin frangere ‘break’. This verb goes back to prehistoric Indo-European *bhr(e)g-, which also produced English break. The Latin derived noun fractiō simply meant ‘breaking’, particularly with reference to the breaking of Communion bread, but all trace of this literal sense has now virtually died out in English, leaving only the mathematical sense ‘number produced by division’ and its metaphorical offshoots.
Amongst the English meanings that have disappeared is ‘discord, quarrelling’, but before it went it produced fractious [18].
=> fracture, fragile, frail - fraction (n.)
- late 14c., originally in the mathematical sense, from Anglo-French fraccioun (Old French fraccion, "a breaking," 12c., Modern French fraction) and directly from Late Latin fractionem (nominative fractio) "a breaking," especially into pieces, in Medieval Latin "a fragment, portion," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin frangere "to break (something) in pieces, shatter, fracture," from Proto-Italic *frang-, from a nasalized variant of PIE root *bhreg- "to break" (cognates: Sanskrit (giri)-bhraj "breaking-forth (out of the mountains);" Gothic brikan, Old English brecan "to break;" Lithuanian brasketi "crash, crack;" Old Irish braigim "break wind"). Meaning "a breaking or dividing" in English is from early 15c.; sense of "broken off piece, fragment," is from c. 1600.
双语例句
- 1. If a stranger stops you, just wind the window down a fraction.
- 如果有陌生人拦你的车，把车窗摇下一点点就行。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. These 50,000 arrears cases represent a tiny fraction of all home owners.
- 这5万个欠款案例只代表所有业主中的一小部分人。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The crop represents a tiny fraction of U.S. production.
- 农作物仅占美国出产物极小的一部分。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Only a small fraction of a bank's total deposits will be withdrawn at any one time.
- 任何时候，一家银行的总存款只有少量会被提取。
来自《权威词典》
- 5. The car missed me by a fraction of an inch.
- 那车子差一点儿就要撞到我了.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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