| 正面 | 562.quite 英 [kwaɪt]美 [kwaɪt]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1、co- "intensive prefix" + oper- "close, cover" => cooper- => cover.2. over 上面——cover盖上（在…上面盖上某东西）adv. 很；相当；完全 例句： 1. Failure is never quite so frightening as regret do.比失败更令人恐惧的是懊悔。 quite 十分，相当来自中古英语quit,quite,结清债务的，自由的。引申副词词义整个地，十分，相当。词义演 变比较even,just,very. quitequite: [14] Quite is essentially the same word as the adjective quit ‘free, absolved, discharged, cleared’ (which in Middle English commonly took the alternative form quite). It came to be used as an adverb meaning ‘thoroughly, clearly’. The weaker modern sense ‘fairly’ did not develop until as recently as the mid-19th century.=> quitquite (adv.)early 14c., adverbial form of Middle English quit, quite (adj.) "free, clear" (see quit (adj.)). Originally "thoroughly;" the weaker sense of "fairly" is attested from mid-19c." |