| 单词 | appropriate |
| 释义 | appropriate (once / 160 pages) 1adj 2v Something appropriate is correct and fits the situation. A sweater-vest with reindeer on it is appropriate holiday apparel, even if it's totally embarrassing. The adjective appropriate is used when something is suitable or fitting. It comes from the Latin appropriare, which means "to make something fit, to make something one's own." Going back even further, appropriate is related to the Latin word proprius, "to belong to a person, thing, or group." Another appropriate way to use this word is as a verb, meaning to steal or seize something, the way you'd appropriate your sister's sandwich if she left it sitting near you. WORD FAMILYappropriate: appropriable, appropriated, appropriately, appropriateness, appropriates, appropriating, appropriation, appropriative, appropriator, misappropriate+/appropriation: appropriations/appropriator: appropriators/misappropriate: misappropriated, misappropriates, misappropriating, misappropriation/misappropriation: misappropriations USAGE EXAMPLESHouse speaker Paul Ryan called the sanctions “overdue” and “an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia”. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) They all think it’s appropriate for young children to hold, pass around, and carry around infants, and I am adamantly opposed to this. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) US President Barack Obama, who is on holiday in Hawaii, offered condolences "for the innocent lives lost" and offered "appropriate assistance". BBC(Jan 01, 2017) 1 adj suitable for a particular person, place, condition, etc. 2a book not appropriate for children a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity it seems that an apology is appropriate Syn|Ant befitting appropriate to grade-appropriatethe quality of ability and work that is appropriate for students in a specified grade patexactly suited to the occasion proper, rightappropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs aproposof an appropriate or pertinent nature propermarked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness inappropriate not suitable for a particular occasion etc unbefittingnot befitting improper, wrongnot appropriate for a purpose or occasion malaproposof an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature impropernot suitable or right or appropriate 1v take possession of by force, as after an invasion Syn|Hypo|Hyper capture, conquer, seize carry capture after a fight arrogate, assume, seize, take over, usurp seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession 2v give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause Syn|Hyper allow, earmark, reserve, set aside allot, assign, portion give out |
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