Podcast
apposite a. [AP-uh-zit]
适当地，恰切的
Definition
: highly pertinent or appropriate: apt
：非常切题恰当的：同义词apt
注：pertinent：中肯的，相关的，切题的，恰当的
Did You Know?
Apposite and opposite sound so much alike that you would expect them to have a common ancestor — and they do. It is the Latin verb ponere, which means “to put or place.” Adding the prefix ad- to ponere led to apponere, meaning “to place near” or “to apply to,” and that branch of the ponere family tree budded apposite. The word is used to describe something that applies well to or is very appropriate for something else. To get opposite, the prefix ob- was added to ponere, and that combination matured into opponere, meaning “to place against or opposite.” The related Latin verb componere, meaning “to put together,” gave us compound and composite.
词源词根演化：
ad- + ponere (“to put or place”) —> apponere —> apposite (“apply well to”)
ob- + ponere (“to put or place”) —>opponere —> opposite (“to place against”)
com- + ponere (“to put or place”) —> componere —> compound/composite (“to put together”)
apposite与opposite的发音如此相近，以至于你可能会期望它们有共同的祖先 — 你是对的，确实是。拉丁动词ponere，意思是“放置”。在其前加上前缀ad-，就得到了apponere，意思是“放置到附近”或者“应用到”，这样就得到了ponere单词家族的一个分支apposite，意思是某事物可以“非常恰当的应用于”或者“非常贴切的”用于另一个事物（即：可以放置到其附近）。要得到opposite，只需要在其前添上词缀ob-，先得到opponere，在变化成英语写法即可，意思是“对着放置，或者反对”。相关的拉丁动词componere，意思是“放置到一起”，为我们带了英语单词compound和composite （两个词都有“组合，合成”的意思。）。
Examples
Before sending the final draft of his novel to his editor, Lyle searched for an apposite quotation that could serve as the book’s epigraph.
在把最终稿件送给他的编辑之前，Lyle搜索到了一段合适的引言，用于他的书稿的题铭。
注：epigraph：碑文，题铭，题词 (a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme)
- “He brings to the story a modern intelligence, a modern interest, as well as much apposite historical information. And the result is a refreshing, civilized book, a notable homage to its great original.”
— Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2005
他给故事情节注入了现代智慧，现代兴趣，以及许多非常贴切的历史信息。结果就是一本新鲜的，文明的著作，同时也显著的忠于它的原作。
注：homage ['hɑːmɪdʒ] ：敬意，效忠 (special honor or respect shown publicly)
Bonus
cursive n.
[noncount]: a type of handwriting in which all the letters in a word are connected to each other
origin: from Latin curs- ‘run’, from the verb currere.
- He writes in cursive when he takes notes.
-
“Thanks you” is written in cursive.
— cursive adj. - cursive handwriting.