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.
雙語例句
1. He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.
他正配合欺詐重案辦公室的官員工作。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one.
馬爾科姆的合同將與他手頭的合同同時生效。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The TANDEM welding is an ideal technology for the welding of panel in shipyard.
TANDEM焊接工藝是船廠拼板焊接比較理想的焊接工藝.
來自互聯網
4. He and his wife run the business in tandem , ie as partners.
他和妻子共同經營這生意.
來自辭典例句
5. Show that paralleled branches and tandem branches may be replaced by equivalent graphs as shown below.