tome: [16] Tome comes via French tome and Latin tomus from Greek tómos. This originally meant ‘slice, piece’ (it went back to the prehistoric Indo-European base *tom-, *tem- ‘cut’, which is also responsible for English temple, tonsorial [19], tonsure [14], and the surgical suffix -tomy ‘cutting’), but it was extended metaphorically to a ‘cut roll of paper’ and eventually to a ‘volume, book’. => temple, tonsorial, tonsure
tome (n.)
1510s, "a single volume of a multi-volume work," from Middle French tome (16c.), from Latin tomus "section of a book, tome," from Greek tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "a section, piece cut off," from temnein "to cut," from PIE *tem- "to cut" (cognates: second element in Latin aestimare "to value, appraise," Old Church Slavonic tina "to cleave, split," Middle Irish tamnaim "I cut off," Welsh tam "morsel"). Sense of "a large book" is attested from 1570s.
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1. Frama - tome supplies the nuclear steam supply systems and GEC Alsthom the turbinegenerators.
法马通公司提供核蒸汽供给系统,而GEC阿尔斯通公司则负责提供汽轮发电机组.
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2. By this tome tomorrow, you will have arrived in Beijing.
到明天这个时候, 你已经到北京了.
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3. In 1485 Sao Tome was made a concession of Joao de Paiva.
圣多美和普林西比主要居住着欧洲人和非洲奴隶.
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4. J : Education, education, education! That's what our tome is all about.
教育, 教育, 还是教育. 这是我们文化渊源之所在.
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5. Its disease hair time to tome Where is what symptom?
