| 单词 | menu |
| 释义 | menu['menju:]n. 菜单, (功能)选择单【计】 菜单 menu men.u AHD: [mµn“y›, m³“ny›] D.J. [6menju8, 6me!nju8]K.K. [6mWnju, 6menju]n.（名词）1. A list of the dishes to be served or available for a meal.菜单：用餐时列有供应菜菜名的单子2. The dishes served or available at a meal.菜肴：用餐时所供应或可点要的饭菜3. Computer Science A list, displayed on a monitor, of options available to a computer user.【计算机科学】 菜单：显示在屏幕上供计算机用户使用的选项列表4. A similar list of options:项目单，选择单：与此类似的选择单：a menu of professional opportunities.就业机会选择单语源:1. French [small, minute, menu] 法语 [小的，极小的，微小的] 2. from Old French menut [small] 源自 古法语 menut [小的] 3. from Latin min&9{¿tus} [past participle of] minuere [to diminish] * see mei- 2源自 拉丁语 min&9{¿tus} [] minuere的过去分词 [减少] *参见 mei- 2注释:An enormous menu might be considered an oxymoronif one were to restrict the word etymologically.Menu can be traced back to the Latin word min&9{¿tus,} meaning “small in size, amount, or degree”and also “possessing or involving minute knowledge.”Latinmin&9{¿tus} became Old French menut and Modern French menu, “small, fine, trifling, minute.” The French adjective came to be used as a nounwith the sense of “detail, details collectively,” and “detailed list.”As such, it was used in the phrasemenu de repas, “list of items of a meal,” which was shortened tomenu. This word was borrowed into English,being first recorded in 1837.The French word had been borrowed before,perhaps only briefly,as a shortening of the French phrasemenu peuple, “the common people.” This usage, however, is recorded in only one text, in 1658.“一个庞大的菜单”这一说法可能会被看成是一种矛盾的修辞法，如果人们从语源学角度对这个词进行限制的话。Menu 这个词的词源可上溯到拉丁词 minutus， 意为“尺寸、数量或程度小的”，或者“具备或涉及到精细知识的。”这个拉丁词minutus 而后又成为古法语单词 menut 和现代法语单词 menu， 意为“小的、精巧的、琐碎的、详细的。” 这个法语形容词逐渐被用作名词，意为“细节、诸多细节”及“详细的名单”。就这样，它被用于词组menu de repas， 意为“一张菜肴明细单”， 后来这个词组又被简略为menu。 这个简略词被引入英语中，最早出现于1837年。这个法语单词以前也曾被英语借用过，但也许只用了很短一段时间，而且是作为意为“普通民众”的法语词组menu peuple 的简略词。 然而这一用法仅在1658年的一篇文章中出现过 |
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