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adjacent

英 [ə'dʒeɪs(ə)nt]美 [ə'dʒesnt]

adj. 鄰近的，毗連的

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中文詞源

adjacent 臨近的

前綴ad-, 去，往。詞根jac, 扔，同project. 扔在旁邊的， 相鄰的。

英語詞源

adjacent

adjacent: [15] Adjacent and adjective come from the same source, the Latin verb jacere ‘throw’. The intransitive form of this, jacēre, literally ‘be thrown down’, was used for ‘lie’. With the addition of the prefix ad-, here in the sense ‘near to’, was created adjacēre, ‘lie near’. Its present participial stem, adjacent-, passed, perhaps via French, into English.

The ordinary Latin transitive verb jacere, meanwhile, was transformed into adjicere by the addition of the prefix ad-; it meant literally ‘throw to’, and hence ‘add’ or ‘attribute’, and from its past participial stem, adject-, was formed the adjective adjectīvus. This was used in the phrase nomen adjectīvus ‘attributive noun’, which was a direct translation of Greek ónoma épithetos.

And when it first appeared in English (in the 14th century, via Old French adjectif) it was in noun adjective, which remained the technical term for ‘adjective’ into the 19th century. Adjective was not used as a noun in its own right until the early 16th century.

adjacent (adj.)

early 15c., from Latin adiacentem (nominative adiacens) "lying at," present participle of adiacere "lie at, border upon, lie near," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + iacere "to lie, rest," literally "to throw" (see jet (v.)), with notion of "to cast (oneself) down."

權威例句

1. The schools were adjacent but there were separate doors.

這些學校緊挨着，但各自獨門獨戶。

2. The planes landed on adjacent runways.

這些飛機在毗連的跑道上降落。

3. These young students live in adjacent rooms.

這些年輕的學生住在毗連的房間裏.

4. We work in adjacent rooms.

我們在毗鄰的房間裏工作.

5. The house adjacent to ours is under repairs.

與我家相鄰的房子正在修繕.

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