capital of Italy; seat of an ancient republic and empire; city of the Papacy, Old English, from Old French Rome, from Latin Roma, a word of uncertain origin. "The original Roma quadrata was the fortified enclosure on the Palatine hill," according to Tucker, who finds "no probability" in derivation from *sreu- "flow," and suggests the name is "most probably" from *urobsma (urbs, robur) and otherwise, "but less likely" from *urosma "hill" (compare Sanskrit varsman- "height, point," Lithuanian virsus "upper"). Another suggestion [Klein] is that it is from Etruscan (compare Rumon, former name of Tiber River).
Common in proverbs, such as Rome was not buylt in one daye (1540s); for when a man doth to Rome come, he must do as there is done (1590s); All roads alike conduct to Rome (1806).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. He had been sent to Rome by his employer.
他已被老板派往羅馬。
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2. No sooner had he arrived in Rome than he was kidnapped.
他剛到羅馬就遭到了綁架。
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3. They believed ancient Greece and Rome were vital sources of learning.
他們認(rèn)為古代希臘羅馬是知識(shí)的重要發(fā)源地。
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4. In 1973, when he lived in Rome, his sixteen-year-old son was kidnapped.
1973年他在羅馬居住時(shí)，他16歲的兒子遭到了綁架。
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5. He spends his time flitting between Florence, Rome and Bologna.