toga
英 ['t??g?]
美['toɡ?]
- n. （古羅馬的）寬外袍；參議員的職位
- n. (Toga)人名；(葡、羅、意、埃塞)托加；(日)藤賀 (姓)
暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?togas;
中文詞源
toga 托加袍
來自拉丁語 toga,斗篷，來自 PIE*teg,*steg,遮蓋，詞源同 tegular,protect.用于指古羅市民穿的 寬松大袍，在古羅馬時期，該衣服具有象征意義，自由民或市民被要求穿著該袍以與奴隸穿 的短上衣(tunic)相區別，短上衣便于干活，而長袍則意味著社會地位。
英文詞源
- toga
- toga: see protect
- toga (n.)
- c. 1600, from Latin toga "cloak or mantle," from PIE *tog-a- "covering," from root *(s)teg- "to cover" (see stegosaurus). The outer garment of a Roman citizen in time of peace.
The toga as the Roman national dress was allowed to be worn by free citizens only. A stranger not in full possession of the rights of a Roman citizen could not venture to appear in it. Even banished Romans were in imperial times precluded from wearing it. The appearance in public in a foreign dress was considered as contempt of the majesty of the Roman people. Even boys appeared in the toga, called, owing to the purple edge attached to it (a custom adopted from the Etruscans) toga praetexta. On completing his sixteenth, afterward his fifteenth, year (tirocinium fori), the boy exchanged the toga praetexta for the toga virilis, pura, or libera--a white cloak without the purple edge. Roman ladies (for these also wore the toga) abandoned the purple edge on being married. [Guhl & Koner, "The Life of the Greeks and Romans," transl. Francis Hueffer, 1876]
Breeches, like the word for them (Latin bracae) were alien to the Romans, being the dress of Persians, Germans, and Gauls, so that bracatus "wearing breeches" was a term in Roman geography meaning "north of the Alps." College fraternity toga party was re-popularized by movie "Animal House" (1978), but this is set in 1962 and the custom seems to date from at least the mid-1950s.Down on Prospect Street, Campus Club held a toga party, at which everyone wore togas. Charter held a come-as-you-are party, at which everyone wore what they happened to have on, and Cloister held a party called "A Night in Tahiti," at which we'd hate to guess what everyone wore. The borough police reported that only one false alarm was turned in. ["Princeton Alumni Weekly," March 19, 1954]
雙語例句
- 1. The man gave in the money he had found in the street toga policeman.
- 這人把在街上拾到的錢交給了警察.
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- 2. Katherine: But this is China, go and get changed. You are not wearing a toga.
- 凱思蓮: 但這兒是中國, 去換掉吧,你不該穿古羅馬袍子.
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