记忆方法
将“affirmative”拆分为“af-firm-ative”，可以记忆为“af”联想到“affirm”（确认），“firm”是稳固的，而“ative”常常与肯定的动作或状态有关。因此，可以想象在稳固的基础上进行肯定确认的动作，帮助记忆“affirmative”表示肯定或积极的含义。
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英语词源
- affirmative (adj.)
- "answering 'yes,'" mid-15c., from use in logic; from Middle French affirmatif (13c.), from Latin affirmativus, from affirmat-, past participle stem of affirmare (see affirm). As a noun from early 15c. Affirmative action "positive or corrective effort by employers to prevent discrimination in hiring or promotion" is attested from 1935 with regard to labor unions; specific racial sense is from 1961; now often used in reference to hiring quotas, etc.
权威例句
- 1. Seventy-nine voted in the affirmative, and none in the negative.
- 79人投赞成票，没有人投反对票。
- 2. Dr Sinclair's affirmative nod seemed a shade reluctant.
- 辛克莱博士虽然点头表示了同意，但还显得有点不情愿。
- 3. Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer.
- 黑格非常渴望得到一个肯定的回答。
- 4. An affirmative resolution of both Houses of Parliament is needed.
- 需要一个两院均持赞同意见的决议.
- 5. He replied in the affirmative to my question.
- 就我的问题他给予了肯定的回答.