elective
英 [iˈlek.tɪv]
美 [iˈlek.tɪv]
- adj. 选修的；选举的；选任的
- n. 选修课程
星级词汇:
记忆方法
联想记忆法：将“elective”分解为“e-lec-tive”，想象一个“e”形的人（表示“我”）在“ lec （读作“leek”像生菜一样）的田野上选择（-ive是表示性质的词尾），即在众多生菜中“我”做了选择，从而记忆“elective”为“可选择的”。
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英语词源
- elective (adj.)
- early 15c., "voluntary," from Late Latin electivus, from elect-, past participle stem of eligere "to pick out, choose" (see election). In U.S., in reference to school subjects studied at the student's choice, first recorded 1847. As a noun, from 1701.
权威例句
- 1. Buchanan has never held elective office.
- 布坎南从未就任过经选举产生的职位。
- 2. They discussed whether patients should have to pay for all elective surgery.
- 他们对病人是否应该支付所有非必需手术的费用进行了讨论.
- 3. Is it nominative or elective?
- 提名呢还是选举?
- 4. Most of the students of our class take Japanese as an elective course.
- 我们班大部分同学选修日语.
- 5. All offices were elective , generally within a gens , and to that extent hereditary to the gens.
- 一切职位多半都是在氏族内部选举的, 因而是在氏族范围内世袭的.