elastic

英 [?'l?st?k] 美[?'l?st?k]

近義詞band rubber

反義詞

CET6TEM4CET4IELTS考研低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?elastics;

1. e -> 一直 + last + -ic => 一直能夠持續、一直能夠維持下去。只有具有伸縮彈性才能一直持續下去，要不然就會爆炸或者萎縮。

elastic 有彈性的

來自希臘文elastos, 延展的，有彈性的。

elastic: elastic: [17] Greek elaúnein meant ‘drive’. From it was derived the late Greek adjective elastikós, which had the sense ‘driving, propelling’. Its Latin version elasticus was used by the French scientist Jean Pecquet (1622–74) in describing the expansive properties of gases, and that is the sense in which it was originally adopted into English. Its transference to the wider meaning ‘returning to a former state after contracting’ took place towards the end of the 17th century.
elastic (adj.): 1650s, formerly also elastick, coined in French (1650s) as a scientific term to describe gases, from Modern Latin elasticus, from Greek elastos "ductile, flexible," related to elaunein "to strike, beat out," which is of uncertain origin; according to Watkins from an extended form of the PIE base *ele- "to go." Applied to solids from 1670s. Figurative use by 1859. The noun meaning "piece of elastic material," originally a cord or string woven with rubber, is from 1847, American English.

3. The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.: 新政策充分靈活地適用兩種觀點.

4. I stretched that piece of elastic to its fullest extent.: 我將這條橡皮筋拉長到最大限度.