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Extension 3212.Extension 英 ɪk'stenʃ(ə)N Ek ]美 ɪk'stɛnʃən 释义 N

正面 3212.extension
英 [ɪk'stenʃ(ə)n; ek-]美 [ɪk'stɛnʃən]

背面
释义:
n. 延长;延期;扩大;伸展;电话分机
例句:
1. After a further four-month extension of her probation period, she was sacked.在又试用了4个月后,她被开除了。

1. ex- "out" + tens- + -ion.2. 含义:stretch out, lengthen.
extension 扩大,延长来自extend, 延长。
extension (n.)c. 1400, "swelling, bulging," from Latin extensionem/extentionem (nominative extensio/extentio) "a stretching out, extension," noun of action from past participle stem of extendere (see extend). In a concrete sense, "extended portion of something" (a railroad, etc.), from 1852. Telephone sense is from 1906."

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