tandem

• n. 串联；串座双人自行车
• adj. 串联的
• adv. 一前一后地；纵排地
• n. (Tandem)人名；(英)坦德姆

来自拉丁语 tandem,最后，究竟，持续时间，来自 tam,因此，来自 PIE*to,指示代词根，词源 同 the,that,-dem,指示副词后缀。后幽默的用于指一前一后两匹马拉的马车（而不是两匹马并 排），再后用于指一前一后的双座自行车。

tandem

tandem: [18] Latin tandem meant ‘eventually, at length’. Its use for ‘acting conjointly’ arose from an 18th-century play on words, in which ‘at length’ was jocularly interpreted as ‘lengthwise, in a straight line’, and the word was applied to a ‘carriage drawn by two horses one behind the other in a straight line’. In the 1880s it was transferred to a ‘bicycle with two seats, one behind the other’. Its more general modern use, for ‘acting together’, dates from the early 20th century.

tandem (n.)

1785, "carriage pulled by horses harnessed one behind the other" (instead of side-by-side), jocular use of Latin tandem "at length (of time), at last, so much," from tam "so" (from PIE *tam-, adverbial form of demonstrative pronoun root *-to-; see -th (1)) + demonstrative suffix -dem. "Probably first in university use" [Century Dictionary]. Transferred by 1884 to bicycles with two seats. In English as an adverb from 1795; as an adjective from 1801.

1. He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.

他正配合欺诈重案办公室的官员工作。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one.

马尔科姆的合同将与他手头的合同同时生效。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The TANDEM welding is an ideal technology for the welding of panel in shipyard.

TANDEM焊接工艺是船厂拼板焊接比较理想的焊接工艺.

来自互联网

4. He and his wife run the business in tandem , ie as partners.

他和妻子共同经营这生意.

来自辞典例句

5. Show that paralleled branches and tandem branches may be replaced by equivalent graphs as shown below.

证明并联分支和串连分支可以用下图所示的等价图代替.

来自辞典例句