英语词源
- choate (adj.)
- "finished, complete," mistaken back-formation from inchoate (q.v.) as though that word contained in- "not." First attested 1878 in letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes lamenting barbarisms in legal case writing (he said he found choate in a California report).
权威例句
- 1. He then went on to Choate, which he disliked heartily.
- 然后他就到了他深恶痛绝的乔特那里.
- 2. Choate's death is awful.
- 乔特死得真惨.