stipend
英 ['staɪpend]***美 ['staɪpɛnd]
助记提示
1. st- "stand, fixed" => sti- "fixed" + pend- => stipend: 定期支付、固定支付的薪金。
中文词源
stipend 薪俸，补贴，生活津贴来自拉丁语 stipendium,支付，工资，薪金，来自 stips,救济，施舍，捐款，礼物，小额付款， 原指一堆小硬币，词源可能同 stiff,-pend,支付，词源同 spend,expend.该词与 salary 有区别， 类似于部队支付给义务兵和士官的工资在性质上的差别。
中文词源
- stipend
- stipend: [15] Latin stīpendium denoted a ‘tax’ or ‘levy’. It was a compound noun formed from stips ‘payment, donation’ and pendere ‘weigh, pay’. It subsequently shifted in meaning to ‘wages, salary’, and particularly ‘soldier’s pay’, both of which passed into English via Old French stipende.
=> pendant, pendulum, spend - stipend (n.)
- early 15c., "periodical payment; soldier's pay," from Latin stipendium "tax, impost, tribute," in military use "pay, salary," from stips "alms, small payment, contribution of money, gift" + pendere "weigh" (see pendant). According to Klein's sources, the first element is related to Latin stipes "log, stock, trunk of a tree" (see stipe). As a verb from late 15c.
双语例句
- 1. a summer internship with a small stipend
- 薪水微薄的暑期实习
来自《权威词典》
- 2. This sum was nearly a third of his total stipend.
- 这笔钱几乎是他全部津贴的三分之一。
来自辞典例句
- 3. There will moreover be a stipend of fifty pounds a year.
- 每年还有五十镑一笔薪俸.
来自辞典例句
- 4. An absence without adequate excuse could result in the suspension of a financial stipend.
- 无正当理由的缺课者可能要受到停发津贴的处罚.
来自辞典例句
- 5. All interships carry a stipend and most provide a tuition waiver.
- 所有助教工作都有薪金,而且大多数还为学生免除学费.
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