Gallery展厅
The SPECT GallerySPECT 展厅
A family of words about looking.关于看的一族词。
Latin specere means to look. English borrowed the family already assembled. In Latin compounds the vowel often shifts, so specere becomes inspicere, respicere, suspicere. The shared idea is looking. The lives of the words are not the same.
拉丁语 specere 是看。英语借入这一族时，词已经组装好了。在拉丁语复合词里元音常常移动，于是 specere 变成 inspicere、respicere、suspicere。共同的想法是看。这些词的生活并不相同。
Latin拉丁语
specere
to look看
Family tree族谱
The vowel change is part of the history. The English spellings do not all wear the same letters they had in the simple verb.元音的变化是历史的一部分。英语的拼写并不都穿着简单动词里的那些字母。
Exhibits展品
A selection from this family, not a census.这一族的选件，不是普查。