英语词典 · 单词释义
elaborate
英 [ɪ'læb(ə)rət] 美 [ɪ'læbəret]
这里集中整理“elaborate”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- adj. 精心制作的；详尽的；煞费苦心的
- vt. 精心制作；详细阐述；从简单成分合成（复杂有机物）
- vi. 详细描述；变复杂
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
第三人称单数: elaborates;过去式: elaborated;过去分词: elaborated;现在分词: elaborating;副词: elaborately;名词: elaborateness; elaboration;
助记提示
1. e‐出，通过劳动出来的。
中文词源
elaborate 详尽的
e-, 向外。-labor, 劳动，辛苦，词源同laboratory.
英文词源
- elaborate
- elaborate: [16] Etymologically, something that is elaborate has been produced by hard work. The word comes from ēlabōrātus, the past participle of Latin ēlabōrāre; this was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and labor ‘work’ (source of English labour). The notion of ‘painstaking work’ had passed by the early 17th century into ‘extreme detail’.
=> labour - elaborate (adj.)
- 1590s, "wrought by labor," from Latin elaboratus, past participle of elaborare "to exert oneself" (see elaboration). Meaning "very detailed" is from 1620s, via notion of "produced with great care and attention to detail." Related: elaborateness.
- elaborate (v.)
- c. 1600, "to build up from simple elements," from Latin elaboratus, past participle of elaborare "to labor, endeavor, struggle, work out" (see elaboration). Meaning "to work out in detail" is attested from 1610s. Related: Elaborated; elaborating.
双语例句
- 1. In case anyone was following me, I made an elaborate detour.
- 为了防止有人跟踪我，我特地绕了弯路。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Elaborate efforts were made to reconstruct what had happened.
- 为重现当时的情景，他们做了大量细致的工作。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. According to the prosecution, the officers manufactured an elaborate story.
- 根据控方意见，官员们精心编造了事情经过。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Her children had the best, most elaborate birthday parties in the neighborhood.
- 她的孩子们的生日聚会在街坊四邻里是最好、最讲究的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade.
- 我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。
来自柯林斯例句
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