場(chǎng)景:淡定前行
例句:Being calm and collected is an apt state for over-thirties. Do what you CAN do and always be curious for the uncertainty.
詞:apt
英英釋義:suitable or right for a particular situation
“apt”是個(gè)形容詞,意思是“恰當(dāng)?shù)摹?“貼切的”,常??梢杂脕?lái)完美替換 appropriate, suitable, fitting 等詞。由于 apt 只有 3 個(gè)字母,是個(gè)單音節(jié)詞,在有些情況下使用它會(huì)讓表達(dá)顯得更簡(jiǎn)潔干練。
魯迅先生已經(jīng)去世 82 年了,依然有很多人引用他的話(huà)來(lái)描述當(dāng)今社會(huì)的一些狀況。我們可以評(píng)價(jià)說(shuō):
1. Eight-two years after his death, Lu Xun’s words remain apt.
apt 經(jīng)常用來(lái)形容名詞 comment/description/comparison 等,是適合用來(lái)發(fā)英文朋友圈的一個(gè)好詞。當(dāng)我們遇到恰如其分的點(diǎn)評(píng)或描述時(shí)就可以用到它,比如:
So apt!(太恰當(dāng)了?。?
What an apt caption!(配圖文字太貼切了?。?
An apt description of XX. (對(duì) XX 的描述恰如其分。)
Never has a title been more apt. (標(biāo)題非常貼切。)
這個(gè)短小精悍的小詞也常可以在《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》中遇到,比如:
2. Well begun, half done. That proverb, ascribed to Aristotle, seems an apt description of the art market—at least it is if a study of artistic careers, published this week in Science, is to be believed.
另外要注意,apt 的副詞形式 aptly 也很常見(jiàn),比如想說(shuō)一個(gè)標(biāo)題/名字起的好,就可以說(shuō)“XX is aptly titled/named”。