"principle, opinion, or dogma maintained as true by a person, sect, school, etc.," properly "a thing held (to be true)," early 15c., from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "to hold, grasp, keep, have possession, maintain," also "reach, gain, acquire, obtain; hold back, repress, restrain;" figuratively "hold in mind, take in, understand."
The Latin word is from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tantram "loom," tanoti "stretches, lasts;" Persian tar "string;" Lithuanian tankus "compact," i.e. "tightened;" Greek teinein "to stretch," tasis "a stretching, tension," tenos "sinew," tetanos "stiff, rigid," tonos "string," hence "sound, pitch;" Latin tendere "to stretch," tenuis "thin, rare, fine;" Old Church Slavonic tento "cord;" Old English þynne "thin"). Connecting notion between "stretch" and "hold" is "cause to maintain." The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.
中文解释
1. from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "hold, keep, maintain".2. "principle," properly "a thing held (to be true)".3. The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.
实用例句
1. This is a basic tenet of capitalism.
这是资本主义的一则基本信条.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. The judge's ruling was based on the simple commonsense tenet that no man is above the law.
法官的判决基于一个常识性原则，即谁也不能凌驾于法律之上。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The only moral tenet governing the conduct of business in the shop was that the goods should be genuine and the price fair.
货真价实,是商店唯一的道德.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc.
窜改过去是英社的中心原则.
来自英汉文学
5. I hold to the tenet that theory should be united with practice.