eclipse

英 [ɪ'klɪps] 美[ɪ'klɪps]

CET6TEM4IELTS考研TOEFL低频词常用词汇

复数: eclipses;第三人称单数: eclipses;过去式: eclipsed;过去分词: eclipsed;现在分词: eclipsing;

eclipse 日食，月食

ec-, 向外。-lipse, 留下，词源同leave, ellipse. 即留下一块阴影的。

eclipse: eclipse: [13] From the point of view of the observer, an object which has been eclipsed has ‘gone away’ – is no longer there. And that in fact is the etymological foundation of the word. It comes, via Old French and Latin, from Greek ékleipsis, a derivative of ekleípein ‘no longer appear or be present’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ek- ‘out, away’ and leípein ‘leave’ (a distant relative of English leave).

Its adjectival derivative, ekleiptikós, passed into English as ecliptic [14], which was applied to the apparent path of the Sun relative to the stars because that is the line along which eclipses caused by the moon occur.
=> leave
eclipse (n.): c. 1300, from Old French eclipse "eclipse, darkness" (12c.), from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ekleipsis "an eclipse; an abandonment," literally "a failing, forsaking," from ekleipein "to forsake a usual place, fail to appear, be eclipsed," from ek "out" (see ex-) + leipein "to leave" (cognate with Latin linquere; see relinquish).
eclipse (v.): late 13c., "to cause an eclipse of," from Old French eclipser, from eclipse (see eclipse (n.)).Figurative use from 1570s. Also in Middle English in an intransitive sense "to suffer an eclipse," now obsolete. Related: Eclipsed; eclipsing.

1. Of course, nothing is going to eclipse winning the Olympic title.: 当然，没有什么能比得过赢得奥运会冠军。

2. During the seventies, her acting career was in eclipse.: 在七十年代, 她的表演生涯黯然失色.

3. The time when a solar eclipse will occur can be calculated.: 日食发生的时间可以推算出来.