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moiety n. [MOY-uh-tee]

一半，一部分；应得之份

Definition

1 a: one of two equal parts: half

b: one of two approximately equal parts

2: one of the portions into which something is divided: component, part

3: one of two basic complementary tribal subdivisions

Did You Know?

Moiety is one of thousands of words that English speakers borrowed from French. The Anglo-French moité (meaning “a half” or “part of something”) comes from Late Latin medietat-, meaning “a half.” Around the same time that moiety was borrowed from Anglo-French, medietat- was also borrowed directly from Latin as mediety, a word which can also mean “a half.” Medietat- comes from Latin medius (meaning “middle”), which has contributed to such English words as medium, meridian, and milieu.

词源词根演化：medius (“middle”) —> medietat- (“a half”) —> moité (“a half”) —> moiety

moiety只是英语世界从法语中借来的数千个单词中的其中一个。Anglo-French的moité （意思是“一半”或者“一部分”）来自于新拉丁语medietat-，意思是“一半”。大约在moiety被从Anglo-French借到英语中时，medietat-也同时直接从拉丁语到了英语中，写作mediety，意思也是“一半”。 而medietat-来自于拉丁语medius（意思是“中间”），这个词也向英语贡献了数个单词，例如medium, meridian和milieu。

注：milieu [miː’ljɜː]：周边环境，背景，栖身所；meridian：子午线，经线，顶点，正午

Examples

• “They came from the sea — these members of the Eagle moiety — paddling their ceremonial canoes, singing traditional songs. Waiting on the shore were members of the Raven moiety, counterparts to the Eagles in the traditional world of the Haida Indians.”

  — Doug O’Harra, The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, 15 Sep. 1996

  他们来自于海上 — 是Eagle部落的成员 — 兜售他们仪式独木舟，唱着传统的歌曲。在海岸上的是Raven部落的成员，在Haida印第安人的传统世界里是 Eagle的对手。

• “Most of the glucose in the body goes directly into cells where it’s modified to produce the energy source ATP. However about 5 percent of all glucose is converted to another sugar moiety, O-GIcNAc, one of the sugar types that can modify proteins.”

  — , 12 May 2009

  身体内的大部分葡萄糖都直接进入到细胞里，在哪里被分解产生能量源ATP。但是大约5%的葡萄糖会被转化为另一种糖部分，O-GIcNAc，是可以分解蛋白质的糖类型中的其中一种。

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