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正面 2105.display
英 [dɪ'spleɪ]美 [dɪ'sple]

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释义:
n. 显示;炫耀vt. 显示;表现;陈列vi. [动] 作炫耀行为adj. 展览的;陈列用的
例句:
1. The most pleasurable experience of the evening was the wonderful fireworks display.这个晚上最让人高兴的就是精彩的焰火表演。

1. see wrench.
display 陈列来自拉丁语displicare, 展开,dis-, 不,非,使相反,-plic, 卷入,卷进,词源同complicate, deploy. 即使展开,陈列。
displaydisplay: [14] Display originally meant ‘unfold’, and it is related not to modern English play but to ply. It comes via Old French despleier (whose modern French descendant, déployer, is the source of English deploy [18]) from Latin displicāre. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘un-’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (source of or related to English accomplish, complicated, ply, and simple), and in classical Latin seems only to have had the metaphorical meaning ‘scatter’.In medieval Latin, however, it returned to its underlying literal sense ‘unfold’, which was originally retained in English, particularly with reference to sails or flags. The notion of ‘spreading out’ is retained in splay, which was formed by lopping off the first syllable of display in the 14th century.=> accomplish, complicate, deploy, ply, simpledisplay (v.)late 13c., "unfurl" (a banner, etc.), from Old French desploiir (Modern French déployer) "unfold, unfasten, spread out" (of knots, sealed letters, etc.), from Latin displicare "to scatter," from dis- "un-, apart" (see dis-) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Properly of sails or flags (and unconnected to play); meaning "reveal, exhibit" is late 14c. Related: Displayed; displaying.display (n.)1580s, "description," from display (v.). Meaning "exhibition" is from 1680s."

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