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Portable Easily Typewriter Carry Computer Class Pɔːrtəbl Adj

Front portable
Pron ['pɔːrtəbl]
Back 【portable】
adj. 可携带的
The author takes his portable typewriter wherever he goes.
作家随身携带他的手提打字机。
Vocab
portableeasily or conveniently transported

If something's portable, you can easily take it with you . You may carry your portable computer with you from class to class because it's small, light, and fits easily in your backpack.

First appearing around 1400, portable stems from the Latin word portare, meaning "to carry." Used as an adjective, portable describes something you can carry around easily. Used as a noun, it means a smaller, easy-to-carry version of something, like a computer or television. On a trip, you might take your portable so you can watch movies in the car. Before computers became popular, you might have carried around a lightweight typewriter called a portable.

All forms of 'portable' will appear on average once every 1517 pages.
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