【英语学习】【WOTD】apposite 释义/词源/示例

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### 文章目录 ###

*  Podcast
 *  apposite \*a.\* \[AP-uh-zit\]
 *  Definition
 *  Did You Know?
 *  Examples
 *  Bonus
 *   *  cursive \*n.\*

# Podcast #

[apposite podcast][]

# apposite *a.* \[AP-uh-zit\] #

适当地，恰切的

# Definition #

: highly pertinent or appropriate: apt  
：非常切题恰当的：同义词apt

注：pertinent：中肯的，相关的，切题的，恰当的

# Did You Know? #

*Apposite* and *opposite* sound so much alike that you would expect them to have a common ancestor — and they do. It is the Latin verb *ponere*, which means “to put or place.” Adding the prefix *ad-* to *ponere* led to *apponere*, meaning “to place near” or “to apply to,” and that branch of the *ponere* family tree budded *apposite*. The word is used to describe something that applies well to or is very appropriate for something else. To get *opposite*, the prefix *ob-* was added to *ponere*, and that combination matured into *opponere*, meaning “to place against or opposite.” The related Latin verb *componere*, meaning “to put together,” gave us *compound* and *composite*.

词源词根演化：  
*ad-* \+ *ponere* (“to put or place”) —> *apponere* —> apposite (“apply well to”)  
*ob-* \+ *ponere* (“to put or place”) —>*opponere* —> opposite (“to place against”)  
*com-* \+ *ponere* (“to put or place”) —> *componere* —> compound/composite (“to put together”)

apposite与opposite的发音如此相近，以至于你可能会期望它们有共同的祖先 — 你是对的，确实是。拉丁动词*ponere*，意思是“放置”。在其前加上前缀*ad-*，就得到了*apponere*，意思是“放置到附近”或者“应用到”，这样就得到了*ponere*单词家族的一个分支apposite，意思是某事物可以“非常恰当的应用于”或者“非常贴切的”用于另一个事物（即：可以放置到其附近）。要得到opposite，只需要在其前添上词缀*ob-*，先得到*opponere*，在变化成英语写法即可，意思是“对着放置，或者反对”。相关的拉丁动词*componere*，意思是“放置到一起”，为我们带了英语单词compound和composite （两个词都有“组合，合成”的意思。）。

# Examples #

Before sending the final draft of his novel to his editor, Lyle searched for an *apposite* quotation that could serve as the book’s epigraph.

在把最终稿件送给他的编辑之前，Lyle搜索到了一段合适的引言，用于他的书稿的题铭。

注：epigraph：碑文，题铭，题词 (a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme)  
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*  “He brings to the story a modern intelligence, a modern interest, as well as much *apposite* historical information. And the result is a refreshing, civilized book, a notable homage to its great original.”  
    — **Frank Kermode**, *The New York Review of Books*, 1 Dec. 2005

他给故事情节注入了现代智慧，现代兴趣，以及许多非常贴切的历史信息。结果就是一本新鲜的，文明的著作，同时也显著的忠于它的原作。

注：homage \['hɑːmɪdʒ\] ：敬意，效忠 (special honor or respect shown publicly)

# Bonus #

## cursive *n.* ##

\[noncount\]: a type of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected to each other  
origin: from Latin *curs-* ‘run’, from the verb *currere*.

*  He writes in *cursive* when he takes notes.
 *  “Thanks you” is written in *cursive*.  
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    — cursive *adj.*
 *  *cursive* handwriting.

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