galvanize

英美['ɡ?lv?na?z]

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vt. 鍍鋅；通電；刺激

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詞態(tài)變化

第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?galvanizes;過(guò)去式:?galvanized;過(guò)去分詞:?galvanized;現(xiàn)在分詞:?galvanizing;

助記提示

1. 路易吉·阿羅西奧·伽伐尼（拉丁文：Luigi Aloysius Galvani）是意大利醫(yī)生、物理學(xué)家與哲學(xué)家，現(xiàn)代產(chǎn)科學(xué)的先驅(qū)者。他在意大利博洛尼亞出生和逝世。在1780年，他發(fā)現(xiàn)死青蛙的腿部肌肉接觸電火花時(shí)會(huì)顫動(dòng)，從而發(fā)現(xiàn)神經(jīng)元和肌肉會(huì)產(chǎn)生電力。他是第一批涉足生物電領(lǐng)域研究的人物之一，這一領(lǐng)域在今天仍然在研究神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)的電信號(hào)和電模式。

中文詞源

galvanize 電鍍，刺激

來(lái)自其發(fā)現(xiàn)者18世紀(jì)意大利解剖學(xué)家Luigi Galvanize用電流刺激青蛙腿發(fā)現(xiàn)該現(xiàn)象，后經(jīng)改造并以其名命名的一種技術(shù)。

英文詞源

galvanize: galvanize: [19] The verb galvanize commemorates the work of Italian physicist Luigi Galvani (1737–98), who in 1762 discovered voltaic electricity by attaching the legs of dead frogs to pairs of different metals. It was first used literally, for the production of muscular spasms by electrical means (Sydney Smith in 1825: ‘Galvanize a frog, don’t galvanize a tiger’), but by the mid-19th century it was being employed figuratively, for ‘stimulate, spur’. The sense ‘coat electrolytically with metal’, dates from the 1830s.
galvanize (v.): 1801, "stimulate by galvanic electricity," from French galvaniser, from galvanisme (see galvanism). Figurative sense of "excite, stimulate (as if by electricity)" first recorded 1853 (galvanic was in figurative use in 1807). Meaning "to coat with metal by means of galvanic electricity" (especially to plate iron with tin, but now typically to plate it with zinc) is from 1839.
He'll swear that in her dancing she cuts all others out,
Though like a Gal that's galvanized, she throws her legs about.
[Thomas Hood, "Love has not Eyes," 1845]
Related: Galvanized; galvanizing.