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Mobile Sense Recorded Məubail A.易于移动的 英 Adj 易于移动的

单词 mobile
音标 ['məubail]
解释 a.易于移动的
红宝书 【英】 adj. 易于移动的 (not fixed in one position)
【记】 mob(动)+ile
字源 mobile (adj.)
late 15c., from Middle French mobile (14c.), from Latin mobilis "movable, easy to move; loose, not firm," figuratively, "pliable, flexible, susceptible, nimble, quick; changeable, inconstant, fickle," contraction of *movibilis, from movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Sociology sense from 1927. Mobile home first recorded 1940.
Mobile
city in Alabama, U.S., attested c.1540 in Spanish as Mauvila, referring to an Indian group and perhaps from Choctaw (Muskogean) moeli "to paddle." Related: Mobilian.
mobile (n.)
early 15c. in astronomy, "outer sphere of the universe," from mobile (adj.); the artistic sense is first recorded 1949 as a shortening of mobile sculpture (1936). Now-obsolete sense of "the common people, the rabble" (1670s) led to mob (n.).
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趣味全助记 【记】看成movable

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