chaperon

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復(fù)數(shù):?chaperons;第三人稱單數(shù):?chaperons;過去式:?chaperoned;過去分詞:?chaperoned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?chaperoning;

chaperon 年長女伴

詞源同cap, 帽子。-on, 大詞后綴。喻指保護(hù)者。

chaperon: chaperon: [14] A chaperon was originally a ‘hood’. The word comes from Old French chaperon, a derivative of chape, whose variant cape was the source of English cape, and goes back ultimately to late Latin cappa ‘hood, cloak’. The word’s modern sense, ‘companion safeguarding propriety’, which first appears in English in the 18th century, arose from the general notion of a ‘hood’ as something that gives protection.
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chaperon (n.): 1720, "woman accompanying a younger, unmarried lady in public," from French chaperon "protector," especially "female companion to a young woman," earlier "head covering, hood" (c. 1400), from Old French chaperon "hood, cowl" (12c.), diminutive of chape "cape" (see cap (n.)). "... English writers often erroneously spell it chaperone, app. under the supposition that it requires a fem. termination" [OED]. The notion is of "covering" the socially vulnerable one.
"May I ask what is a chaperon?"
"A married lady; without whom no unmarried one can be seen in public. If the damsel be five and forty, she cannot appear without the matron; and if the matron be fifteen, it will do."
[Catharine Hutton, "The Welsh Mountaineer," London, 1817]
The word had been used in Middle English in the literal sense "hooded cloak."
chaperon (v.): "act as a chaperon," 1792, also chaperone, from chaperon (n.), or from French chaperonner, from chaperon (n.). Related: Chaperoned; chaperoning.

1. In Spain a young lady of good family does not travel without a chaperon.: 在西班牙,大家閨秀出門旅行總帶一個女監(jiān)護(hù)人.

2. What kind of chaperon are you, sitting in the kitchen?: 你個女看護(hù)怎么當(dāng)?shù)呐毒凸茏约鹤趶N房?

3. Campers should not be related to the chaperon or liaison officer.: 營員與領(lǐng)隊老師或聯(lián)絡(luò)官員無親屬關(guān)系.

4. Teachers often chaperon their classes on field trips.: 在野外郊游時老師?？醋o(hù)著班上的學(xué)生.

5. The young girl would go nowhere without chaperon.: 這個年輕女孩去任何地方都有監(jiān)護(hù)人跟著.