sheldrake是什么意思

sheldrake

英 ['ʃeldreɪk] 美

sheldrake (n.): early 14c., from sheld- "variegated" + drake "male duck." First element cognate with Middle Dutch schillede "separated, variegated," West Flemish schilde, from schillen (Dutch verschillen "to make different"), from Proto-Germanic *skeli-, from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut" (see scale (n.1)). This is the origin considered most likely, though English sheld by itself is a dialect word attested only from c. 1500. OED finds derivation from shield (n.), on resemblance to the patterns on shields, "improbable."

1. An important set of ideas have been advanced by the biologist Rupert Sheldrake.: 生物学家鲁珀特·谢尔德雷克已提出了一整套重要的观点。