英文词源
- surveillance
- surveillance: see vigil
- surveillance (n.)
- 1802, from French surveillance "oversight, supervision, a watch," noun of action from surveiller "oversee, watch" (17c.), from sur- "over" (see sur- (1)) + veiller "to watch," from Latin vigilare, from vigil "watchful" (see vigil). Seemingly a word that came to English from the Terror in France ("surveillance committees" were formed in every French municipality in March 1793 by order of the Convention to monitor the actions and movements of suspect persons, outsiders, and dissidents).
中文词源
surveillance:监视
来自法语 surveiller,监督,看管,来自 sur-,在上,veiller,看,看护,来自拉丁语 vigilare,看, 看护,词源同 vigil,wake.拼写比较 rail,regulate.后引申词义监视。
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