alter
英 ['??lt?; '?l-]
美 ['?lt?]
- vt. 改變，更改
- vi. 改變；修改
- n. (Alter)人名；(英)奧爾特；(德、捷、葡、愛沙、立陶、拉脫、俄、西、羅、瑞典)阿爾特
助記提示
1. alter- => alter.
2. => change (something).
中文詞源
alter 改變詞根al, 異，不同。-ter, 比較級(jí)后綴。
英文詞源
- alter
- alter: [14] Alter comes from the Latin word for ‘other (of two)’, alter. In late Latin a verb was derived from this, alterāre, which English acquired via French altérer. Latin alter (which also gave French autre and English alternate [16], alternative [17], altercation [14], and altruism, not to mention alter ego) was formed from the root *al- (source of Latin alius – from which English gets alien, alias, and alibi – Greek allos ‘other’, and English else) and the comparative suffix *-tero-, which occurs also in English other.
Hence the underlying meaning of Latin alter (and, incidentally, of English other) is ‘more other’, with the implication of alternation between the two.
=> alias, alien, alternative, altruism, else - alter (v.)
- late 14c., "to change (something)," from Old French alterer "change, alter," from Medieval Latin alterare "to change," from Latin alter "the other (of the two)," from PIE *al- "beyond" (see alias (adv.)) + comparative suffix -ter (as in other). Intransitive sense "to become otherwise" first recorded 1580s. Related: Altered; altering.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. She is, first and foremost, her husband's alter ego.
- 她首先是丈夫的知己。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
- 當(dāng)前工人與管理部門的分工將會(huì)改變。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. Barry Humphries's alter ego Dame Edna has taken the US by storm.
- 巴里·漢弗萊斯憑借埃德娜夫人一角轟動(dòng)全美。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways.
- 他指責(zé)那些督促他改變習(xí)慣的人。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. He is unlikely to alter his game plan.
- 他不大可能改變自己的策略。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句