英语单词 | derive |
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英美音标 | 英 [dɪ'raɪv] 美 [dɪ'raɪv] |
中文释义 | v.获取;得自;起源 |
英语例句 | (1) We shall derive much benefit from reading good novels. (2) We derive our sustenance from the land. (3) If we start some a year earlier, we shall derive the benefits a year earlier. (4) The two attitudes derive from different historical perspectives. |
中文例句 | (1) 我们将从优秀小说中获得很大好处。 (2) 我们从土地获取食物。 (3) 我们如果早开始一年,我们可以早得利一年 (4) 这两种态度产生于不同的历史观点。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you want to talk about something that comes from something else, but you want to sound sophisticated and maybe financial or scientific, use derive, like so: That scent? It's derived from a solution of roses boiled with toothpicks. |
vocabulary扩展 | The word derive derives from (see how we did that?) the Latin rivus or stream, as in water. That image of the stream may help you remember the meaning of derive; you may picture tracing tiny streams back to their main source. Derive is a verb, as you can see, but it's often in the news in the noun form derivative: something that is derived from something else, as in "juice is a derivative of an orange." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]获得;取得;得到 If you derive something such as pleasure or benefit from a person or from something, you get it from them. [V n [FORMAL 正式]
2 [V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)起源于;(使)来自 If you say that something such as a word or feeling derives or is derived from something else, you mean that it comes from that thing. [ [V [Also V n
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