scroll: [15] Scroll has no family connection with roll, although roll is largely responsible for its present-day form. Etymologically it is actually the same word as shred. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic *skrautha ‘something cut’. This evolved in a straight line to give English shred, but it was also borrowed through medieval Latin scrōda into Old French as escroe, where its meaning ‘cut piece, strip’ narrowed to ‘strip of parchment’.
Its Anglo- Norman version escrowe was acquired by English, where it split in two. It survives in full as escrow [16], a legal term for a sort of deed, but a shortened form, scrow, also emerged, and association with roll (in the sense ‘roll of parchment’) led to its being altered to scrowle or scroll. => escrow, shred
scroll (n.)
c. 1400, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c. 1200), from Anglo-French escrowe, Old French escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frankish *skroda "shred" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *skrauth- (cognates: Old English screada "piece cut off, cutting, scrap;" see shred (n.)). As an ornament on furniture or in architecture, from 1610s.
scroll (v.)
"to write down in a scroll," c. 1600, from scroll (n.). Sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981. Related: Scrolled; scrolling.
双语例句
1. I covered the scroll in sealing wax, and affixed a red ribbon.
我用封蜡将卷轴封好，并系上一根红丝带。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Use the arrow keys to scroll through the list of files.
用箭头键把文件目录滚动一遍。
来自《权威词典》
3. As I opened the scroll, a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.
我打开卷轴时, 黄河的景象展现在眼前.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.
他被授予一幅卷轴,以表彰其所做出的成就.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. Scroll through the document using the slider bar on the right of the window.
