salient

英 ['seɪlɪənt] 美['selɪənt]

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比较级: more salient;最高级: most salient;

salient 最重要的，显著的

来自拉丁语 salire,跳，跳起，来自 PIE*sel,跳，词源同 sally,result,resilient.即跳跃的，跳出来的，引申词义显著的，最重要的。

salient: salient: [16] Salient is one of a large number of English words that go back ultimately to Latin salīre ‘jump’. Others include assail, assault, desultory, insult, sally, sauté, and also salacious [17], which goes back to Latin salāx ‘given to leaping on to females in order to copulate’, a derivative of salīre. Salient itself comes from the present participle saliēns, and was originally used as a heraldic term, meaning ‘jumping’; the metaphorical ‘prominent’ did not emerge until the 18th century.
=> assail, assault, desultory, insult, result, salacious, sally, sauté
salient (adj.): 1560s, "leaping," a heraldic term, from Latin salientem (nominative saliens), present participle of salire "to leap," from PIE root *sel- (4) "to jump" (cognates: Greek hallesthai "to leap," Middle Irish saltraim "I trample," and probably Sanskrit ucchalati "rises quickly").

It was used in Middle English as an adjective meaning "leaping, skipping." The meaning "pointing outward" (preserved in military usage) is from 1680s; that of "prominent, striking" first recorded 1840, from salient point (1670s), which refers to the heart of an embryo, which seems to leap, and translates Latin punctum saliens, going back to Aristotle's writings. Hence, the "starting point" of anything.
salient (n.): 1828, from salient (adj.).

1. Chronic fatigue is also one of the salient features of depression.: 慢性疲劳也是抑郁症的显著特点之一。

3. For the more salient remarks on the matter, cf. Isis Unveiled, Vol. I.: 关于这个问题的更重要的评论，参看《揭开面纱的伊希斯》第一卷。

4. He took me around our new offices, pointing out all the salient features.: 他领我去我们的新办公室参观, 并一一指出显著特色.

5. The soldiers had to remain in a deathtrap salient for most of the rest of the war.: 随后的战争中，士兵们大部分时间只能呆在最危险的突出阵地里。