elaborating
基本解释
- adj.详尽的;复杂的;精心的;精美的
- v.详细地说明;用心制作;推敲;变得复杂
词源解说
- 16世纪90年代进入英语,直接源自古典拉丁语的elaboratus,意为体力生产;最初源自古典拉丁语的elaborat,意为非常详细的。
用法辨析
- elaborate的基本意思是“注重细节”; 对于尚未实现的事物,译为“详细制定,精心制作”; 对于已存在的事物,则意在完全显现其细节,即“详尽说明,详细阐述”。
- elaborate用作及物动词时,可接名词或代词作宾语,可用于被动结构。
- elaborate作不及物动词时,后接on或upon,表示“详细阐述”。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- You understand the situation; I needn't elaborate any further.
你对情况是了解的,我不必再进一步详谈了。 - The inventor spent months in elaborating his plans for a new engine.
这位发明家花费了几个月的时间精心绘制了一种新发动机的平面图。 - It's an elaborate design.
这是一种精心的设计。 - The problem is too elaborate.
问题太复杂。 - The matter is so elaborate that we can't solve it.
这事情太复杂,我们解决不了。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
用作形容词 (adj.)
用作定语: ~+ n.
用作表语: S+be+~
S+be+~+that-clause
词组短语
- elaborate a code 精心编辑法典
- elaborate literary works 精心编辑文学作品
- elaborate a plan 制订计划
- elaborate eloquently 滔滔不绝地阐述
- elaborate successfully 成功地拟定
- elaborate on 详细说明
- elaborate on a theory 详细阐述某一理论
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
~+副词
~+介词
英英字典
- lbrtlbret
- Elaborate plans, systems, and procedures are complicated because they have been planned in very great detail, sometimes too much detail.
- elaborately
- Elaborate clothing or material is made with a lot of detailed artistic designs.
- If you elaborate a plan or theory, you develop it by making it more complicated and more effective.
- elaboration
- If you elaborate on something that has been said, you say more about it, or give more details.
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专业释义
- 加工;从简单成分合成(复杂有机物);使(体内食物或简单成分)转变成(能吸收、能排泄的)复杂有机物