• n. 文章；物品；條款；[語] 冠詞
• vt. 訂約將…收為學徒或見習生；使…受協(xié)議條款的約束
• vi. 簽訂協(xié)議；進行控告

來自詞根art, 連貫，連結。指把各分開的項目連結在一起。

article

article: [13] Like art, arm, and arthritis, article goes back to an Indo-European root *ar-, which meant ‘put things together, join, fit’. Amongst its derivatives was Latin artus ‘joint’ (a form parallel to Greek árthron, source of arthritis), of which the diminutive was articulus ‘small joint’. This was extended metaphorically to mean ‘division, part’, and when the word first entered English, via Old French article, it was used for a particular clause of a treaty, of a contract, or specifically of the Creed.

Its application to an ‘item, thing’ is a comparatively late development, from the start of the 19th century. A Latin derivative of articulus, the verb articulāre ‘divide into joints’, hence ‘speak distinctly’, gave rise to English articulate [16].
=> arm, art, arthritis

article (n.)

c. 1200, "separate parts of anything written" (such as the statements in the Apostles' Creed, the clauses of a statute or contract), from Old French article (13c.), from Latin articulus, diminutive of artus "a joint" (from PIE *ar-tu-, from *ar- "to fit together;" (see arm (n.1)).

Meaning extended to "a small division," then generalized to "item, thing." Older sense preserved in Articles of War "military regulations" (1716) and Articles of Confederation (U.S. history). Meaning "literary composition in a journal, etc." (independent, but part of a larger work) first recorded 1712. Meaning "piece of property" (clothing, etc.) first attested 1796, originally in rogue's cant.

1. No one article can ever do justice to the topic of fraud.

沒有哪一篇文章能把欺詐這一話題講得恰到好處。

來自柯林斯例句

2. There is a lengthy article on Spike Milligan in the Observer newspaper.

《觀察家報》上有一篇關于斯派克·米利根的長篇文章。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Ben Brantley's article on Sir Ian McKellen rekindled many memories.

本·布蘭特利的那篇關于伊恩·麥凱倫爵士的文章喚起了許多記憶。

來自柯林斯例句

4. We are grateful to you for permission to reproduce this article.

非常感謝您允許我們復印這篇文章。

來自柯林斯例句

5. I commend Ms. Orth on writing such an informative article.

我對奧思太太寫出內容如此翔實的文章表示贊許。

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