pensum

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A task or imposition set as a school punishment. dated
    — You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it wept.

词形变化

pensums plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin pensum. Doublet of peso.
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