current

英 ['k?r(?)nt] 美['k??nt]

TEM4CET4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6高頻詞基本詞匯

復數:?currents;

current 當前的，流通的

來自PIE*kers, 跑，詞源同car,course.

current: current: [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant, the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift movement’, which probably also produced car, career, carry, and charge. The Latin verb itself has a wide range of descendants in English, from the obvious courier [16] to the more heavily disguised corridor [16] (originally literally ‘a run’), occur and succour.

For the English offspring of its past participle cursus see COURSE. The sense ‘of the present time’ (first recorded in the 17th century) comes from the notion of ‘running in time’ or ‘being in progress’.
=> car, carry, charge, corridor, courier, course, occur, succour
current (adj.): c. 1300, "running, flowing," from Old French corant "running, lively, eager, swift," present participle of corre "to run," from Latin currere "to run, move quickly" (of persons or things), from PIE *kers- "to run" (cognates: Greek -khouros "running," Lithuanian karsiu "go quickly," Old Norse horskr "swift," Old Irish and Middle Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot," Welsh carrog "torrent"). Meaning "prevalent, generally accepted" is from 1560s.
current (n.): late 14c., from Middle French corant (Modern French courant), from Old French corant (see current (adj.)). Applied 1747 to the flow of electrical force.

1. The tidal stream or current gradually decreases in the shallows.: 淺灘上的潮水逐漸退去。

3. Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.: 現行雇傭法要變，要獎勤罰懶。

4. The current sole superpower is far from being a disinterested observer.: 當前唯一的超級大國遠不是一個公正的旁觀者。

5. Stimulate the site of greatest pain with a small negative current.: 以微弱負電流刺激疼得最厲害的部位。