单词
purpose
英 ['p??p?s]
美['p?p?s]
基本信息
- n. 目的；用途；意志
- vt. 决心；企图；打算
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词态变化
复数:?purposes;第三人称单数:?purposes;过去式:?purposed;过去分词:?purposed;现在分词:?purposing;
中文词源
purpose 意图，目的，意义
pur-,向前，-pos，放置，词源同pose,position.引申词义意图，目的等。
英文词源
- purpose
- purpose: [13] Purpose, propose [14], and propound [16] are ultimately the same word. All go back to Latin prōpōnere ‘put forward, declare’, a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forward’ and pōnere ‘place’ (source of English pose, position, etc). Its past participle prōpositus was the source of two distinct Old French verbs: the minimally altered proposer, source of English propose; and purposer, which contains the Old French descendant of the Latin prefix prō-, source of English purpose. Propound is an alteration of an earlier propone (source of proponent [16]), which was based directly on prōpōnere.
=> pose, position, propose, proponent, propound - purpose (n.)
- c. 1300, "intention, aim, goal," from Anglo-French purpos, Old French porpos "aim, intention" (12c.), from porposer "to put forth," from por- "forth" (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pur-) + Old French poser "to put, place" (see pose (v.1)). On purpose "by design" is attested from 1580s; earlier of purpose (early 15c.).
- purpose (v.)
- late 14c., from Anglo-French purposer "to design," Old French porposer "to intend, propose," variant of proposer (see propose).
双语例句
- 1. Most of them are destroyed because they've served their purpose.
- 它们中大多数在完成使命后被销毁。
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- 2. What'simpressed me has been his considerable firmness of purpose.
- 令我印象深刻的是他对目标的坚定不移。
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- 3. The purpose of the visit was to navigate into an ice-filled fiord.
- 这次出行是为了能驶入冰雪覆盖的峡湾。
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- 4. The company has recently moved into a new purpose-built factory.
- 该公司最近搬进了一家专门建造的新工厂。
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- 5. Their purpose is to build a fair society and a strong economy.
- 他们的目的是要建立一个公平的社会和一个强大的经济体。
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