dram: [15] Dram was borrowed from Old French drame or medieval Latin drama, which were variants respectively of dragme or dragma. Both came from drachma, the Latin version of Greek drakhmé. This was used in the Athens of classical times for both a measure of weight (hence the meaning of modern English dram) and a silver coin (hence modern Greek drakhmē), in English drachma [16].
It is thought to have originated in the notion of the ‘amount of coins that can be held in one hand’, and to have been formed from *drakh-, the base which also produced Greek drássesthai ‘grasp’. (Latin drachma is also the source of dirham [18], the name of the monetary unit used in Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.) => dirham, drachma
dram (n.)
mid-15c., "small weight of apothecary's measure," a phonetic spelling, from Anglo-Latin dragma, Old French drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma "drachma," from Greek drakhma "measure of weight," also, "silver coin," literally "handful" (of six obols, the least valuable coins in ancient Athens), akin to drassesthai "to grasp." The fluid dram is one-eighth of a fluid ounce, hence "a small drink of liquor" (1713); Hence dram shop (1725), where liquor was sold by the shot.
双语例句
1. Would you care for a dram?
少喝一点？
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2. The DRAM manufacturers almost have no profit margins to speak of.
生产电脑存储器(dram)的厂家几乎无钱可赚.
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3. A variety of materials are in widespread use in DRAM.
几种不同材料已经在DRAM里广泛使用了.
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4. That puts it in the same league as conventional dynamiC - RAM ( DRAM ) chips.
这使它与常规 动态随机存储器 ( DRAM ) 芯片一样处在同一个同盟之中.
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5. Anti - fuse is widely used in FPGA, DRAM, PROM, EPROM chips.
