| 正面 | 1743.select 英 [sɪ'lekt]美 [sə'lɛkt]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. con- "together" + tent- "hold".2. => that which is contained.3. Sense evolved through "contained," "restrained," to "satisfied," as the contented person's desires are bound by what he or she already has.vt. 挑选；选拔adj. 精选的；挑选出来的；极好的vi. 挑选n. 被挑选者；精萃 例句： 1. The floorcovering you select will need to be impervious to water.挑选的地板材料必须是防水的。 select 选择se-,分开，-lect,拿，收集，词源同 collect,elect.即拿出来，分开，引申词义选择。 selectselect: [16] Select is one of a wide range of English words that go back ultimately to Latin legere ‘choose’ or its past participle lectus (others include collect and elect and, from its later extended meaning ‘read’, lectern and lecture). Addition of the prefix sē- ‘apart’ produced sēligere ‘choose out’, whose past participle sēlectus gave English select, both as adjective and verb.=> collect, elect, lecture, legibleselect (adj.)1560s, from Latin selectus, past participle of seligere "choose out, single out, select; separate, cull," from se- "apart" (see secret (n.)) + legere "to gather, select" (see lecture (n.)). The noun meaning "a selected person or thing, that which is choice" is recorded from c. 1600. New England selectman first recorded 1640s.select (v.)"to single out one or more out of a number of things of the same kind," 1560s, from select (adj.) or from Latin selectus. Related: Selected; selecting." |