column: [15] The notion underlying column is of ‘height, command, extremity’. It comes, via Old French colomne, from Latin columna ‘pillar’, which was probably a derivative of columen, culmen ‘top, summit’ (from which English also gets culminate). It goes back ultimately to a base *kol-, *kel-, distant ancestor of English excel and hill. The word’s application to vertical sections of printed matter dates from the 15th century, but its transference to that which is written (as in ‘write a weekly newspaper column’) is a 20thcentury development. => culminate, excel, hill
column (n.)
mid-15c., "vertical division of a page," also "a pillar, post," from Old French colombe (12c., Modern French colonne "column, pillar"), from Latin columna "pillar," collateral form of columen "top, summit," from PIE root *kel- (4) "to project, be prominent" (see hill). Sense of "matter written for a newspaper" dates from 1785.
实用例句
1. She also writes a regular column for the Times Educational Supplement.
她也定期为《泰晤士报高等教育增刊》写专栏文章。来自柯林斯例句
2. Word went out that a column of tanks was on its way.
有消息说一队坦克已经出动了。来自柯林斯例句
3. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
我为他代写《电讯报》每周的橄榄球专栏。来自柯林斯例句
4. We had stupidly been looking at the wrong column of figures.
我们稀里糊涂，看串了数字栏。来自柯林斯例句
5. A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air.
