salient

英 ['se?l??nt] 美['sel??nt]

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比較級:?more salient;最高級:?most salient;

salient 最重要的，顯著的

來自拉丁語 salire,跳，跳起，來自 PIE*sel,跳，詞源同 sally,result,resilient.即跳躍的，跳出來的，引申詞義顯著的，最重要的。

salient: salient: [16] Salient is one of a large number of English words that go back ultimately to Latin salīre ‘jump’. Others include assail, assault, desultory, insult, sally, sauté, and also salacious [17], which goes back to Latin salāx ‘given to leaping on to females in order to copulate’, a derivative of salīre. Salient itself comes from the present participle saliēns, and was originally used as a heraldic term, meaning ‘jumping’; the metaphorical ‘prominent’ did not emerge until the 18th century.
=> assail, assault, desultory, insult, result, salacious, sally, sauté
salient (adj.): 1560s, "leaping," a heraldic term, from Latin salientem (nominative saliens), present participle of salire "to leap," from PIE root *sel- (4) "to jump" (cognates: Greek hallesthai "to leap," Middle Irish saltraim "I trample," and probably Sanskrit ucchalati "rises quickly").

It was used in Middle English as an adjective meaning "leaping, skipping." The meaning "pointing outward" (preserved in military usage) is from 1680s; that of "prominent, striking" first recorded 1840, from salient point (1670s), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates Latin punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle's writings. Hence, the "starting point" of anything.
salient (n.): 1828, from salient (adj.).

1. Chronic fatigue is also one of the salient features of depression.: 慢性疲勞也是抑郁癥的顯著特點之一。

2. She pointed out the salient features of the new design.: 她指出新設(shè)計的幾個顯著特征。

3. For the more salient remarks on the matter, cf. Isis Unveiled, Vol. I.: 關(guān)于這個問題的更重要的評論，參看《揭開面紗的伊希斯》第一卷。

4. He took me around our new offices, pointing out all the salient features.: 他領(lǐng)我去我們的新辦公室參觀, 并一一指出顯著特色.

5. The soldiers had to remain in a deathtrap salient for most of the rest of the war.: 隨后的戰(zhàn)爭中，士兵們大部分時間只能呆在最危險的突出陣地里。