LOT comes from Old English hlot “object used to determine someone’s share” 用于抽签的小物件, 筛子, 木条等物品 -> 引申为运气. 分配, 块等诸多意思
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Lot : 本意指的是抽签的工具，在古代就有很多通过摇奖或者抽签的方式来分配财产，包括古代分配土地，也会通过抓阄的方式来分配，在木片上刻上姓名，然后抽出谁的木片就是中奖者会获取相应的奖品, 所以lot有的时候还会指通过这种分配方式获得的所分配的份额, 比如我们常用的a lot 一开始指 那个木块所代表的份额 后来引申为 大量的意思词源故事
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LOT相关词汇:
allot [ə’lɑt] vt. 分配；拨给；分派
☉ 拆: al(ad: to)+lot(块) -> 去变成一块一块的 -> 分配
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☉ 拓展allotment [ə’lɑtmənt] n. 分配；分配物；养家费；命运
☉ 常用例句:The seats are allotted to the candidates who have won the most votes. 这些席位被分配给了赢得了最多选票的候选人
☉ 词源
- allot (v.)
- late 15c., from Old French aloter (Modern French allotir) “to divide by lots, to divide into lots,” from à “to” (see ad-) + loter “lot,” a word of Germanic origin (cognates: Gothic hlauts, Old High German hloz, Old English hlot; see lot). Related: Allotted; allotting.
lot [lɑt] n. 份额；许多；命运；阄 adv. （与形容词和副词连用）很，非常；（与动词连用）非常 pron. 大量，许多 vt. 分组，把…划分（常与out连用）；把（土地）划分成块 vi. 抽签，拈阄
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☉ 词源
- lot (n.)
- Old English hlot “object (anything from dice to straw, but often a chip of wood with a name inscribed on it) used to determine someone’s share,” also “what falls to a person by lot,” from Proto-Germanic *khlutom (cognates: Old Norse hlutr “lot, share,” Old Frisian hlot “lot,” Old Saxon hlot, Middle Dutch, Dutch lot, Old High German hluz “share of land,” German Los; Old English hleotan “to cast lots, to foretell”), of unknown origin.
lottery [‘lɑtəri] n. 彩票；碰运气的事，难算计的事；抽彩给奖法
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☉ 拆: lot(抽签)+t+ery(n后缀) -> 事物(靠抽签决定->运气) -> 彩票
☉ 词源
- lottery (n.)
- 1560s, “arrangement for a distribution of prizes by chance,” from Italian lotteria, from lotto “lot, portion, share,” from same root as Old English hlot (see lot). Compare Middle French loterie, from Middle Dutch loterje, from lot (n.).
lotto [‘lɑto] n. 一种对号码的牌戏
☉ 拆: lot+to -> 乐透的音译 -> 乐透型彩票, 猜号码的游戏
☉ 常用短语lotto ticket 乐透彩票 lotto fun 趣味乐透 ; 趣味乐透街机游戏
☉ 词源
- lotto (n.)
- 1778, “type of card game,” from French loto and directly from Italian lotto “a lot,” from Old French lot “lot, share, reward, prize,” from Frankish or some other Germanic source (compare Old English and Old Frisian hlot; see lot (n.)). Meaning “a lottery, a game of chance” is attested from 1787.
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