单词 | closure |
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音标 | ['kləuʒə] |
解释 | n. 关闭;终止 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n. 关闭 (a closing or being closed);终止(end; conclusion) |
字源 | closure (n.) late 14c., "a barrier, a fence," from Old French closure "enclosure; that which encloses, fastening, hedge, wall, fence," also closture "barrier, division; enclosure, hedge, fence, wall" (12c., Modern French clôture), from Late Latin clausura "lock, fortress, a closing" (source of Italian chiusura), from past participle stem of Latin claudere "to close" (see close (v.)). Sense of "act of closing, bringing to a close" is from early 15c. In legislation, especially "closing or stopping of debate." Sense of "tendency to create ordered and satisfying wholes" is 1924, from Gestalt psychology. |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】close |
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