sculpture

n. 雕塑；雕刻；刻蚀

vt. 雕塑；雕刻；刻蚀

vi. 从事雕刻

中文词源

sculpture 雕像，雕塑品

sculpt-,雕刻，雕塑，-ure,名词后缀。引申词义雕像，雕塑品。

sculpture: sculpture: [14] Latin sculpere meant ‘carve, scratch’ (it was a variant of scalpere, from which English gets scalpel [18]). From is past participle sculptus was formed the noun sculptūra, acquired by English as sculpture. The agent noun sculptor [17] also comes from Latin, while the verb sculpt [19] was borrowed from French sculpter.
=> scalpel
sculpture (n.): late 14c., from Latin sculptura "sculpture," from past participle stem of sculpere "to carve, engrave," back-formation from compounds such as exculpere, from scalpere "to carve, cut," from PIE root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut, cleave" (see scale (n.1)).

1. He studied sculpture because he enjoyed working with clay.: 他学习雕塑是因为他喜欢玩黏土。