apt: [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com-) couple and copulation. Related words are found in Indo-European languages of the Indian subcontinent: for instance, Sanskrit āpta ‘fit’. => adapt, adept, attitude, couple, inept
apt (adj.)
mid-14c., "inclined, disposed;" late 14c., "suited, fitted, adapted," from Old French ate (13c., Modern French apte), or directly from Latin aptus "fit, suited," adjectival use of past participle of *apere "to attach, join, tie to," from PIE root *ap- (1) "to grasp, take, reach" (cognates: Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s.
雙語例句
1. The words of this report are as apt today as in 1929.
這份報(bào)告的措詞用在今天和用在1929年一樣貼切。
來自柯林斯例句
2. She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.
她動(dòng)不動(dòng)就拔高嗓門，并揮舞雙手。
來自柯林斯例句
3. We are apt to wish for what we can't have.
我們往往會(huì)祈求得不到的東西.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Beginners are too apt to make mistakes in grammar.
初學(xué)者極易犯語法錯(cuò)誤.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The apt citations and poetic gems have adorned his speeches.