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正面 12098.elastic
英 [ɪ'læstɪk]美 [ɪ'læstɪk]

背面
释义:
adj. 有弹性的;灵活的;易伸缩的n. 松紧带;橡皮圈
例句:
1. Pull the elastic tight and knot the ends.把橡皮筋拽紧,两头打上结。

1. e -> 一直 + last + -ic => 一直能够持续、一直能够维持下去。只有具有伸缩弹性才能一直持续下去,要不然就会爆炸或者萎缩。
elastic 有弹性的来自希腊文elastos, 延展的,有弹性的。
elasticelastic: [17] Greek elaúnein meant ‘drive’. From it was derived the late Greek adjective elastikós, which had the sense ‘driving, propelling’. Its Latin version elasticus was used by the French scientist Jean Pecquet (1622–74) in describing the expansive properties of gases, and that is the sense in which it was originally adopted into English. Its transference to the wider meaning ‘returning to a former state after contracting’ took place towards the end of the 17th century.elastic (adj.)1650s, formerly also elastick, coined in French (1650s) as a scientific term to describe gases, from Modern Latin elasticus, from Greek elastos "ductile, flexible," related to elaunein "to strike, beat out," which is of uncertain origin; according to Watkins from an extended form of the PIE base *ele- "to go." Applied to solids from 1670s. Figurative use by 1859. The noun meaning "piece of elastic material," originally a cord or string woven with rubber, is from 1847, American English."

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