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正面 3332.concrete
英 ['kɒŋkriːt]美 ['kɑŋkrit]

背面
释义:
adj. 混凝土的;实在的,具体的;有形的vi. 凝结vt. 使凝固;用混凝土修筑n. 具体物;凝结物
例句:
1. The builders have perched a light concrete dome on eight slender columns.建筑工人在8根细柱上架起轻巧的混凝土穹顶。

1、con- "together" + cret- + -e.2、字面含义:grow together. => solid, actual, building material made from cement.3、由抽象、松散、虚无缥缈的状态将其凝聚、固化成一个有形的整体、实体。
concrete 混凝土的,具体的con-, 强调。-cre, 生长,创造,词源同create, crescent. 即长到一起的,聚合成块的。
concreteconcrete: [14] In origin, something concrete is something that has ‘grown together’. The word comes, via Old French concret, from Latin concrētus, the past participle of concrēscere ‘grow together’, hence ‘harden’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and crēscere ‘grow’ (source also of English crescent, increase, and accrue). Its original application in English was fairly general – referring to that which is solid or material; its use for the building material did not emerge until the early 19th century.=> accrue, crescent, decrease, increaseconcrete (adj.)late 14c., "actual, solid," from Latin concretus "condensed, hardened, thick, hard, stiff, curdled, congealed, clotted," figuratively "thick; dim," literally "grown together;" past participle of concrescere "to grow together," from com- "together" (see com-) + crescere "to grow" (see crescent). A logicians' term until meaning began to expand 1600s. Noun sense of "building material made from cement, etc." is first recorded 1834."

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