vestige

英語

詞源

源自法語 vestige，源自拉丁語 vestīgium (「足跡，痕跡，腳底」)。

發音

國際音標^(幫助): /ˈvɛs.tɪd͡ʒ/
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名詞

vestige (複數 vestiges)

足跡
近義詞：trace、sign、track、footstep、footprint
(引申義) （已消逝的事物的）痕跡，殘留，殘餘
近義詞：remains

the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra
在巴爾米拉舊時的輝煌的痕跡

vestiges of former population
原住民所留下來的痕跡
- 1788, James Hutton, Theory of the earth，第 166 頁:
  The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end.
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- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 「The Letters Restored」, 出自 Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], 第 III 卷, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC，第 218 頁:
  Her face was without a vestige of colour, but it only showed more strongly the perfect outline of her features. Pale she was, but not like a statue; it was a human paleness—passionate and painful.
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- 1871, Charles Darwin, Descent of Man, Chapter I:
  Nevertheless in some cases, my original view, that the points are vestiges of the tips of formerly erect and pointed ears, still seems to me probable.
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- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter VIII:
  Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.
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- 1911, 「Angkor」, 出自 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
  The chief remains of the Roman Calagurris are the vestiges of an aqueduct and an amphitheatre.
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- 1944, Miles Burton, 章號 5, 出自 The Three Corpse Trick:
  The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
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(生物學) 退化器官
- 1904, Transactions of the […] annual session, 第 40 卷, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania，第 160 頁:
  Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.
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- 1932, John Arthur Thomson, Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing，第 824 頁:
  Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige, often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.
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- 2007, R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, William Parkera, 「Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix,」, 出自 Journal of Theoretical Biology:
  This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige.
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