• n. 解剖；解剖學(xué)；剖析；骨骼

前綴ana-, 向上，向后。詞根tom, 砍，切，見atom, 不可切的，原子。

anatomy

anatomy: [14] Etymologically, anatomy means ‘cutting up’ (the Greek noun anatomíā was compounded from the prefix ana- ‘up’ and the base *tom-, which figures in several English surgical terms, such as tonsillectomy [19], as well as in atom and tome), and when it first came into English it meant literally ‘dissection’ as well as ‘science of bodily structure’.

From the 16th century to the early 19th century it was also used for ‘skeleton’, and in this sense it was often misanalysed as an atomy, as if the initial anwere the indefinite article: ‘My bones … will be taken up smooth, and white, and bare as an atomy’, Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote 1755.
=> atom, tome

anatomy (n.)

late 14c., "study of the structure of living beings;" c. 1400, "anatomical structures," from Old French anatomie, from Late Latin anatomia, from Greek anatomia, from anatome "dissection," from ana- "up" (see ana-) + temnein "to cut" (see tome). "Dissection" (1540s), "mummy" (1580s), and "skeleton" (1590s) were primary senses of this word in Shakespeare's day; meaning "the science of the structure of organized bodies" predominated from 17c. Often mistakenly divided as an atomy or a natomy.

The scyence of the Nathomy is nedefull and necessarye to the Cyrurgyen [1541]

1. This was a troubling essay on the anatomy of nationhood.

這是一篇剖析民族主義的讓人不安的文章。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The ball hit him in the most sensitive part of his anatomy.

球擊中了他身上最敏感的部位。

來自柯林斯例句

3. He had worked extensively on the anatomy of living animals.

他在活體解剖方面經(jīng)驗(yàn)豐富。

來自柯林斯例句

4. the anatomy of the horse

馬的身體構(gòu)造

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

5. the department of anatomy and physiology

解剖生理學(xué)系

來自《權(quán)威詞典》