正面 | 1022.agent 英 ['eɪdʒ(ə)nt]美 ['edʒənt] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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背面 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 释义: 联想:唱歌应有“声”。n. 代理人,代理商;药剂;特工vt. 由…作中介;由…代理adj. 代理的n. (Agent)人名;(罗)阿真特 例句: 1. The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.该特工人员为东德做了20多年的间谍。 agent 代理来自词根ag, 做, 同act. agentagent: [15] Latin agere, a verb of great semantic breadth (‘drive, lead, act, do’), has been a prolific source of English words. Its past participle, āctus, produced act, action, active, actor, actual, cachet, and exact, while other parts of its paradigm lie behind agile, agitate, ambiguous, coagulate, cogent, cogitate, examine, exigent, exiguous, and prodigal.Its most obvious offspring, however, are agent (literally ‘(person) doing something’) and agency, formed from the Latin present participial stem agent-. Agere itself is of considerable antiquity, being related to other Indo-European verbs such as Greek ágein ‘drive, lead’, Old Norse aka ‘travel in a vehicle’, and Sanskrit ájati ‘drives’.=> act, agile, ambiguous, cachet, cogent, demagogue, exact, examine, prodigalagent (n.)late 15c., "one who acts," from Latin agentem (nominative agens) "effective, powerful," present participle of agere "to set in motion, drive, lead, conduct" (see act (n.)). Meaning "any natural force or substance which produces a phenomenon" is from 1550s. Meaning "deputy, representative" is from 1590s. Sense of "spy, secret agent" is attested by 1916.agent (adj.)1610s, from agent (n.)." |
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