lecture: [14] The Latin verb legere has been a prodigious contributor to English vocabulary. It originally meant ‘gather, choose’, and in that guise has given us collect, elect, elegant, intelligent, legion [13] (etymologically a ‘chosen’ body), neglect, and select. It subsequently developed semantically to ‘read’, and from that mode English has taken lecture, lectern [14] (from the medieval Latin derivative lectrīnum), legend [14] (etymologically ‘things to be read’), and lesson. => collect, elect, elegant, intelligent, legend, legible, legion, lesson, neglect, select
lecture (n.)
late 14c., "action of reading, that which is read," from Medieval Latin lectura "a reading, lecture," from Latin lectus, past participle of legere "to read," originally "to gather, collect, pick out, choose" (compare election), from PIE *leg- (1) "to pick together, gather, collect" (cognates: Greek legein "to say, tell, speak, declare," originally, in Homer, "to pick out, select, collect, enumerate;" lexis "speech, diction;" logos "word, speech, thought, account;" Latin lignum "wood, firewood," literally "that which is gathered").
To read is to "pick out words." Meaning "action of reading (a lesson) aloud" is from 1520s. That of "a discourse on a given subject before an audience for purposes of instruction" is from 1530s.
lecture (v.)
1580s, from lecture (n.). Meaning "to address severely and at length" is from 1706. Related: Lectured; lecturing.
中文解释
1、lect- ( read ) + -ure.2、action of reading, that which is read.
实用例句
1. Chuck would lecture me, telling me to get a haircut.
查克就会数落我，让我去理一下发。
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2. Within this lecture I cannot pretend to deal adequately with dreams.
在这一次讲座中，我不敢自诩能对梦境作透彻的分析。
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3. Our captain gave us a stern lecture on safety.
船长就安全问题严厉地训斥了我们一顿。
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4. We picked up our conference materials and filed into the lecture hall.
我们领了会议材料后鱼贯进入讲演厅。
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5. In his lecture Riemann covered an enormous variety of topics.
