Front | appropriate |
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Pron | [ə'proʊpriət] |
Back | 【APPROPRIATE】 Thick, woolen clothes would not be appropriate for a hot summer day. 厚重的羊毛制的衣服不适合在炎热的夏天穿。 【重点词汇】 appropriate 1. adj. 适合的 同: proper 2. 占有 v. 同: embezzle 【APPROPRIATE】 You should not appropriate other people's belongings without their permission. 你不应该未经允许就占用他人的财产。 【重点词汇】 appropriate 1. adj. 适合的 同: proper 2. v. 占有 同: embezzle |
Vocab | appropriatesuitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
Something appropriate is correct and fits the situation. A sweater-vest with reindeer on it is appropriate holiday apparel, even if it's totally embarrassing. The adjective appropriate is used when something is suitable or fitting. It comes from the Latin appropriare, which means "to make something fit, to make something one's own." Going back even further, appropriate is related to the Latin word proprius, "to belong to a person, thing, or group." Another appropriate way to use this word is as a verb, meaning to steal or seize something, the way you'd appropriate your sister's sandwich if she left it sitting near you. All forms of 'appropriate' will appear on average once every 159 pages. appropriable appropriate appropriately appropriateness appropriation appropriative appropriator misappropriate misappropriated misappropriation |
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