number的缩写 number的前缀有哪些-百科叔叔

美国印第安纳州一名叫薇薇安的高中学生，她在学习英语的时候，遇到了一个百思不得其解的问题：单词Number的缩写为什么是No？特别是这个单词本身没有字母O的存在。于是，她将这个问题带到了一档节目：

- Hello, you have a way with words.

你好，《能说会道》节目。

- My name is Vivian, I am calling from Indianapolis, Indiana.

我的名字叫薇薇安。我来自印第安纳州的印第安纳波利斯市

- Welcome, Vivian! What can we do for you?

欢迎薇薇安，我们有什么能帮到你的吗?

- I had a question why is the abbreviation for the word number (it just spelled n-u-m-b-e-r) No, is the letter O isn&39;t anywhere in the original word.

我有一个问题，为什么number，拼写是n-u-m-b-e-r，这个单词的缩写是No，在原单词里根本没有o这个字母啊

- Oh, so you think it maybe should be Nu instead of No is the abbreviation ha?

哦，所以其实你觉得它的缩写更应该是Nu，而不是No

- Right I mean like... probably.

是的，可能是吧

- Ha ha ha ha! It&39;s part of a set of abbreviations we have that are basically older than English, at least modern English. It goes back to the Latin form of the word number... it&39;s... One form of it was numero, very much like in Spanish and Italian today in n-u-m-e-r-o.

这是一套比英语，至少是现代英语更古老的缩写的一部分。它可以追溯到单词number的拉丁语形式，其中的一种是numero，非常像现在西班牙语和意大利语中的n-u-m-e-r-o

- And Latins scribes abbreviated a lot of their writing and the way they abbreviate that word was in №, the little marker maybe they raise O with the line above it to indicated that the word had been shortened.

拉丁文字中有很多缩写，他们缩写这个词的方式是用o这个小标记，把o加上横线升格表示这个词被缩短了

- So that&39;s it...so we just capt that Latin abbreviation.

就是这样，我们就使用了拉丁语的缩略语

- Wow! That&39;s so cool!

哇，太酷了

- Well cool, thank you for telling me.

谢谢您帮我解惑

- Yes, that&39;s pretty much it. Thanks for call. Really appreciate it.

是的，差不多就是这样，感谢你的来电

- Thanks, bye!

谢谢，再见

- Take care, bye!