apt

英 [?pt]美[?pt]

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副詞:?aptly;名詞:?aptness;

apt 適應(yīng)，傾向

詞根ap, 連接, 詞源同couple. -t，過去分詞。指匹配的，適應(yīng)的。

apt: apt: [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com-) couple and copulation. Related words are found in Indo-European languages of the Indian subcontinent: for instance, Sanskrit āpta ‘fit’.
=> adapt, adept, attitude, couple, inept
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.

1. The words of this report are as apt today as in 1929.: 這份報(bào)告的措詞用在今天和用在1929年一樣貼切。

2. She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.: 她動(dòng)不動(dòng)就拔高嗓門，并揮舞雙手。

4. Beginners are too apt to make mistakes in grammar.: 初學(xué)者極易犯語法錯(cuò)誤.

5. The apt citations and poetic gems have adorned his speeches.: 貼切的引語和珠璣般的詩句為他的演說詞增添文采.