| 正面 | 2832.relevant 英 ['relɪv(ə)nt]美 ['rɛləvənt]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、di- "apart" + vers- + -e.2、含义：turn to different ways, turn to many or various by separate or apart.3、该词在拉丁语中其实就是divert的过去分词，也就是说它来源于divert的拉丁语对应词的过去分词。由此取形容词词性并引申出如今的含义。4、spelling variant of divers.adj. 相关的；切题的；中肯的；有重大关系的；有意义的，目的明确的 例句： 1. We are trying to make politics more relevant to younger people.我们试图使政治活动更加贴近年轻人。 relevant 起作用的，相关联的，相关的来自拉丁语 relevare,减轻，来自 re-,表强调，levare,举起，词源同 lever,lighten,relieve.即减轻 的，起作用的，引申诸相关词义。 relevantrelevant: [16] Relevant comes ultimately from the present participle of Latin relevāre ‘raise’, source of English relief and relieve. The modern English sense ‘appropriate’ probably developed from a medieval application of relevāre to ‘take up’, hence ‘take possession of property’, which led to relevant being used as a legal term for ‘connected with’.=> relief, relieverelevant (adj.)"pertinent to the matter at hand," 1550s, from Middle French relevant "depending upon," originally "helpful," from Medieval Latin relevantem (nominative relevans), from stem of Latin relevare "to lessen, lighten" (see relieve). Not generally used until after 1800." |