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Attitude French Late Latin Italian Technical Term Art

正面 1157.attitude
英 ['ætɪtjuːd]美 ['ætɪtʊd]

背面
释义:
n. 态度;看法;意见;姿势
例句:
1. Beauty is an attitude. It has nothing to do with age.美是一种态度,与年龄无关。

1. 同源词:achieve, chief, chef, mischief.
attitude 态度aptitude的变体。原指绘画或雕像时模特的姿势,通常都看起来比较优雅,后指傲慢的态度。
attitudeattitude: [17] In origin, attitude is the same word as aptitude. Both come ultimately from late Latin aptitūdō. In Old French this became aptitude, which English acquired in the 15th century, but in Italian it became attitudine, which meant ‘disposition’ or ‘posture’. This was transmitted via French attitude to English, where at first it was used as a technical term in art criticism, meaning the ‘disposition of a figure in a painting’. The metaphorical sense ‘mental position with regard to something’ developed in the early 19th century.=> aptitudeattitude (n.)1660s, via French attitude (17c.), from Italian attitudine "disposition, posture," also "aptness, promptitude," from Late Latin aptitudinem (nominative aptitudo; see aptitude). Originally 17c. a technical term in art for the posture of a figure in a statue or painting; later generalized to "a posture of the body supposed to imply some mental state" (1725). Sense of "settled behavior reflecting feeling or opinion" is first recorded 1837. Connotations of "antagonistic and uncooperative" developed by 1962 in slang."

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