1. 音译“威化”----威化饼干。
2. underlying etymological meaning was of a 'honeycomb'- patterned cake or biscuit – a sense wafer has since lost.
3. weave => wafer.
4. web => weave => wafer.
中文词源
wafer 威化饼
来自waffle,华夫饼,用于指一种轻饼干。
英文词源
wafer
wafer: [14] Wafer and waffle [18] are essentially the same word. Both come ultimately from a Low German term whose underlying etymological meaning was of a ‘honeycomb’- patterned cake or biscuit – a sense wafer has since lost. The ancestral form was wāfel, which seems to have come from the prehistoric Germanic base *wab-, *web- (source of English weave) and is probably related to German wabe ‘honeycomb’.
Old French borrowed Middle Low German wāfel as gaufre (which is where English got goffer ‘crimp’ [18] from). The Anglo-Norman version of this was wafre – whence English wafer. Waffle was borrowed direct into American English from Dutch wafel. (The verb waffle ‘speak verbosely’ [19], incidentally, is not the same word. It is a derivative of an earlier waff [17], used for the sounds a dog makes, which like woof was of imitative origin.) => goffer, waffle, weave, web
wafer (n.)
late 14c., "thin cake of paste, generally disk-shaped," from Anglo-French wafre, Old North French waufre "honeycomb, wafer" (Old French gaufre "wafer, waffle"), probably from Frankish *wafel or another Germanic source (compare Flemish wafer, altered from Middle Dutch wafel "honeycomb;" see waffle (n.)). Eucharistic bread first so called 1550s.
双语例句
1. Cut the fennel into wafer-thin slices.
把茴香切成薄薄的小片。
来自柯林斯例句
2. She opened her mouth to receive the papery - thin wafer.
她张开嘴领受薄薄的圣饼.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Wafer, on the other hand , is the classic NBA enigma.
Wafer, 是一个典型的NBA的X因素,他有着惊人的身体素质.
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4. We really have not had a big enough sample to determine Wafer really is.
我们没有足够大的样本来确定wafer的未来.
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5. Single - wafer processes use higher pressures than the batch processes.