compound

英 ['kɒmpaʊnd] 美['kɑmpaʊnd]
  • vt. 合成;混合;和解妥协;搀合
  • vi. 和解;妥协
  • n. [化学] 化合物;混合物;复合词
  • adj. 复合的;混合的

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中文词源


compound 复合物

com-, 强调。-pon, 放置,词源同opponent, position. 即放在一起的。

词态变化


复数: compounds;第三人称单数: compounds;过去式: compounded;过去分词: compounded;现在分词: compounding;

助记提示


1. com- "together" + -pound (pon-).
2. 含义:put together, mix, combine.
3. It is on the analogy of expound, etc.

双语例句


1. Police fired on them as they fled into the embassy compound.
当他们逃进使馆大院时,警察向他们开了枪。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The less stable compounds were converted into a compound called Delta-A THC.
不太稳定的化合物被转换成了一种叫做Delta-ATHC的化合物。

来自柯林斯例句

3. This sticky compound adheres well on this surface.
这种黏性的化合物能牢牢地粘在这个表面上。

来自柯林斯例句

4. The compound was hidden by trees and shrubs.
大院掩映在树木灌丛之中。

来自柯林斯例句

5. Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.
普通食盐是钠和氯的化合物。

来自《权威词典》

英文词源


compound
compound: There are two distinct words compound in English. The one meaning ‘combine’ [14] comes ultimately from Latin compōnere ‘put together’. Old French took two verbs from this: the perfect stem composproduced composer (whence English compose) while the infinitive became compondre, source of English compound. Its original Middle English form was compoune; the final d came from the adjectival use of the past participle compouned. Compound ‘enclosure’ [17] is of Eastern origin: it comes from Malay kampong ‘group of buildings, village’, and was borrowed via Portuguese campon or Dutch campoeng.

The English form was no doubt remodelled on the basis of compound ‘combine’.

=> compose, composite, position
compound (v.)
"to put together," late 14c., compounen "to mix, combine," from Old French compondre, componre "arrange, direct," from Latin componere "to put together" (see composite). The -d appeared 1500s in English on model of expound, etc. Related: Compounded; compounding.
compound (n.2)
"a compound thing," mid-15c., from compound (adj.).
compound (n.1)
1670s, via Dutch (kampoeng) or Portuguese, from Malay kampong "village, group of buildings." Spelling influenced by compound (v.). Originally, "the enclosure for a factory or settlement of Europeans in the East," later used of South African diamond miners' camps (1893), then of large fenced-in spaces generally (1946).
compound (adj.)
late 14c., originally compouned, past participle of compounen (see compound (v.)). Compound eye is attested from 1836; compound sentence is from 1772.