1. 同源词:scepter, shaft, scape.
2. scepter: from Old French sceptre, from Latin sceptrum, from Greek skeptron "staff," from root of skeptesthai "to prop oneself." Cognate with Old English sceaft (see shaft).
c. 1300, ceptre, from Old French sceptre (12c.), from Latin sceptrum "royal staff," from Greek skeptron "staff to lean on; royal scepter;" in transferred use, "royalty," from root of skeptein "to prop or stay, lean on." Apparently a cognate with Old English sceaft (see shaft (n.1)). The verb meaning "to furnish with a scepter" is from 1520s. Related: sceptred.
双语例句
1. A scepter is one of the attributes of a king.
权杖是帝王的象征之一.
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2. The crown and the scepter are the insigne of kings.
王冠与权杖是国王的标志.
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3. The scepter is the king's badge of office.
权杖是国王地位的象征.
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4. A scepter is the attribute of power.
权杖是权力的标志.
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5. The conqueror governed his new subjects with an iron scepter.