单词 | apt |
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音标 | [æpt] |
解释 | a.易于…的,恰当的 |
红宝书 | 【考】 反义词: extremely inappropriate(十分 不合适的); unlikely(不可能的) |
字源 | apt (adj.) mid-14c., "inclined, disposed;" late 14c., "suited, fitted, adapted," from Old French ate (13c., Modern French apte), or directly from Latin aptus "fit, suited," adjectival use of past participle of *apere "to attach, join, tie to," from PIE root *ap- (1) "to grasp, take, reach" (cognates: Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s. |
不择手段背单词 | adj. 易于...的; 适当的 = befitting = felicitous 【例】This shoe is apt to slip 这种鞋容易滑倒. an apt answer 适当的答复 【反】extremely inappropriate(十分不合适的); unlikely(adj 不太可能的, 靠不住的); aptness(n 倾向; 适合性)-unsuitability(n 不相称; 不适合) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】近于appropriate 适当的 |
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