dram: [15] Dram was borrowed from Old French drame or medieval Latin drama, which were variants respectively of dragme or dragma. Both came from drachma, the Latin version of Greek drakhmé. This was used in the Athens of classical times for both a measure of weight (hence the meaning of modern English dram) and a silver coin (hence modern Greek drakhmē), in English drachma [16].
It is thought to have originated in the notion of the ‘a(chǎn)mount of coins that can be held in one hand’, and to have been formed from *drakh-, the base which also produced Greek drássesthai ‘grasp’. (Latin drachma is also the source of dirham [18], the name of the monetary unit used in Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.) => dirham, drachma
dram (n.)
mid-15c., "small weight of apothecary's measure," a phonetic spelling, from Anglo-Latin dragma, Old French drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma "drachma," from Greek drakhma "measure of weight," also, "silver coin," literally "handful" (of six obols, the least valuable coins in ancient Athens), akin to drassesthai "to grasp." The fluid dram is one-eighth of a fluid ounce, hence "a small drink of liquor" (1713); Hence dram shop (1725), where liquor was sold by the shot.
雙語例句
1. Would you care for a dram?
少喝一點(diǎn)？
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2. The DRAM manufacturers almost have no profit margins to speak of.
生產(chǎn)電腦存儲器(dram)的廠家?guī)缀鯚o錢可賺.
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3. A variety of materials are in widespread use in DRAM.
幾種不同材料已經(jīng)在DRAM里廣泛使用了.
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4. That puts it in the same league as conventional dynamiC - RAM ( DRAM ) chips.
這使它與常規(guī) 動態(tài)隨機(jī)存儲器 ( DRAM ) 芯片一樣處在同一個(gè)同盟之中.
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5. Anti - fuse is widely used in FPGA, DRAM, PROM, EPROM chips.